When, after an absence of fourteen months, Cyprian returned to his diocese, he defended leaving his post in letters to the other North African bishops and a tract " De lapsis ," and called a council of North African bishops at Carthage to consider the treatment of the lapsed and the apparent schism of Felicissimus ( 251 ).

Like Cyprian a father of the North African Church, he referred to Cyprian's remark in his Responsio contra Arianos (" Reply against the Arians " ).

This is recorded in a North African memorandum written in the 4th century containing a computation of the in the books of the Bible and the works of Cyprian.

' North African literary activity: A Cyprian fragment, the stichometric lists and a Donatist compendium.

" It notes that, " when the first direct evidence of infant Baptism appears in the second century, it is never presented as an innovation ," that 2nd-century Irenaeus treated baptism of infants as a matter of course, and that, " at a Synod of African Bishops, St. Cyprian stated that ' God's mercy and grace should not be refused to anyone born ', and the Synod, recalling that'all human beings ' are ' equal ', whatever be ' their size or age ', declared it lawful to baptize children ' by the second or third day after their birth '.

Cornelius had the support of St. Cyprian, St. Dionysius, and most African and Eastern bishops while Novatian had the support of a minority of clergy and laymen in Rome who did not acknowledge Cornelius as pope.

We know from the letters of St. Cyprian that, except in time of persecution, the African bishops met at least once a year, in the springtime, and sometimes again in the autumn.

In a region further from there is the burial of Pope Cornelius, whose tomb still has its original inscription giving him the title of martyr and, on its sides, splendid paintings with figures in 7th and 8th century Byzantine style representing popes Sixtus II and Cornelius and the African bishops Cyprian and Ottatus.

Among the Roman martyrs, mention is already made in the Ferial of some African martyrs ( March 7, Perpetua and Felicitas ; September 14, Cyprian ).

Commodianus is supposed to have been from Roman Africa, partly on the ground of his similarity to Cyprian, partly because the African school was the chief center of Christian Latinity in the third century ; Syrian origin has also been suggested.

The council in the main sided with Cyprian and condemned Felicissimus, though no acts of this council survive.

It was in the fourth century, as is commonly held, that confessors were first given public ecclesiastical honour, though occasionally praised in ardent terms by earlier Fathers, and although an abundant reward ( multiplex corona ) is declared by St. Cyprian to be theirs.

For his profound learning Cornelius sarcastically defined him as " that creator of dogmas, that champion of ecclesiastical culture ", though his eloquence impressed Saint Cyprian of Carthage ( Letter LX, 3 ) and a pope ( probably pope Fabianus ) made him a priest.

In a letter to Pope Sixtus II ( 257 – 58 ), Dionysius mentions that in the controversy over rebaptism of the lapsed Pope Stephen had refused communication with Helenus of Tarsus, Firmilian, and all Cilicia and Cappadocia, and the neighbouring lands ( Eusebius, VII, v, 3-4 ), a subject touched on in the sole surviving letter of Firmilian, a response to Cyprian.

:* Cyprian wrote of them " How, when God the Father is not known -- nay, is even blasphemed -- can they who among the heretics are said to be baptized in the name of Christ only, be judged to have obtained the remission of sins?

Not depriving the Mauri of their line of kings would have contributed to preserving loyalty and order, it appears: " The Mauri, indeed, manifestly worship kings, and do not conceal their name by any disguise ," Cyprian observed in 247, likely quoting a geographer rather than personal observation, in his brief euhemerist exercise in deflating the gods entitled On the Vanity of Idols.

It ends with the conversion of Cyprian, his swift rise to the rank of Bishop, and Justa becoming a deaconess, with the new name, Justina.

The Adversus Aleatores by an imitator of Cyprian quotes it by name.

: For other schools by this name, see Cyprian ( disambiguation )

Novatian definitely wrote letters during the persecution in the name of the Roman clergy which later passed to Saint Cyprian ( Letters XXX and XXXVI ).

Cyprian wrote of them " How, when God the Father is not known-nay, is even blasphemed-can they who among the heretics are said to be baptized in the name of Christ only, be judged to have obtained the remission of sins?

At this critical moment, the Roman army was crippled by the outbreak of a second smallpox pandemic, the plague of Cyprian ( 251-70 ).

Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, said that the first commandment given to men was to increase and multiply, but now that the earth was full there was no need to continue this process of multiplication.

Also, according to Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, The Painted Bird was Kosiński's most successful attempt at profiteering from the Holocaust by maintaining an aura of a chronicle.

Cyprian () ( died September 14, 258 ) was bishop of Carthage and an important Early Christian writer, many of whose Latin works are extant.

Cyprian was born sometime in the early third century.

In Africa Cyprian courageously prepared his people for the expected edict of persecution by his " De exhortatione martyrii ," and himself set an example when he was brought before the Roman proconsul Aspasius Paternus ( August 30, 257 ).

The treatise entitled De duplici martyrio ad Fortunatum and attributed to Cyprian was not only published by Erasmus, but probably also composed by him.

He was highly esteemed by Cyprian ; Novatian refers to his nobilissima memoriae, and he corresponded with Origen.

It reads, “ Cornelius Martyr .” The letters Cornelius sent while in exile are all written in the colloquial Latin of the period instead of the classical style used by the educated such as Cyprian, a theologian as well as a bishop, and Novatian, who was also a philosopher.

24 Nov. 2008 < http :// www. britannica. com / EBchecked / topic / 137950 / Saint-Cornelius >.</ ref > His Saint ’ s Day was originally on the 14th of September, the date on which both St. Cyprian and St. Cornelius were martyred, as proposed by St. Jerome.

The incident was famously memorialized in Polish poet Cyprian Norwid's poem, " Chopin's Piano.

The first land grant was given to Cyprian Nichols in 1687, and two more followed soon after the turn of the century.

It was first printed at Strassburg in 1562, and has been reprinted several times, both separately and along with the writings of Minucius Felix, Cyprian or Arnobius.

The connection between such substantial meals and the Eucharist had virtually ceased by the time of Cyprian ( died 258 ), when the Eucharist was celebrated fasting in the morning and the agape in the evening.

According to an epistle of Cyprian of Carthage, Circumcision of the flesh was replaced by circumcision of the spirit .< ref > Translated by Robert Ernest Wallis.

In these and many other respects St Cyprian ’ s was little different from the other leading prep schools of the time.

Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage said that the first commandment given to men was to increase and multiply, but now that the earth was full there was no need to continue this process of multiplication.

Ancient literature suggests that the figurines are of the Cyprian hermaphroditic deity Aphroditus, whose cult was introduced into mainland Greece around the 5th – 4th century BCE.

The most notable song from it was " Bema pamięci żałobny rapsod " ( A Mournful Rhapsody in Memory of Józef Bem ), based on the 19th century poem by Cyprian Kamil Norwid.

This idea, which occurs in both Tatian and Cyprian, fits especially well into the scheme of Irenaeus' theology ; ;

Examples of the Western text are found in Codex Bezae, Codex Claromontanus, Codex Washingtonianus, the Old Latin ( i. e., Latin translations made prior to the Vulgate ), as well as in quotations by Marcion, Tatian, Irenaeus, Tertullian and Cyprian.

Cyprian of Carthage ( d. 258 ) stressed the Petrine primacy as well as the unity of the Church and the importance of being in communion with the bishops.

" To his contemporaries his forty years of influential episcopate, his friendship with Origen and Dionysius, the appeal to him of Cyprian, and his censure of Stephanus might well make him seem the most conspicuous figure of his time " ( Wace ).