Aphrodite is usually said to have been born near Paphos, on the island of Cyprus, for which reason she is called " Cyprian ", especially in the poetic works of Sappho.

Clement of Alexandria in his Protrepticus talks about the " Cyprian Islander Cinyras, who dared to bring forth from night to the light of day the lewd orgies of Aphrodite in his eagerness to deify a strumpet of his own country.

The following example ( translated by Marilyn B. Skinner ) is of a statue of Aphrodite, often known as the " Cyprian " because of her origin:

The latter of these may evidently be taken to belong to Salamis in Cyprus and the festival of the Cyprian Aphrodite, in the same way that the Hymn to Apollo belongs to Delos and the Delian gathering.

His disciple, Cyprian ( Bishop of Carthage 248-58 ) appeals to the same fundamental principle of election to a vacant see in the aftermath of the Decian Persecution when denying the legitimacy of his rigorist rival in Carthage and that of the anti-pope Novatian in Rome ; however, the emphasis is now on legitimating his episcopal ministry as a whole and specifically his exclusive right to administer discipline to the lapsed rather than on the content of what is taught.

At the beginning of the 3rd century, it is adopted by Clement of Alexandria and by Origen of Alexandria, later by Methodius, Cyprian, Lactantius, Dionysius of Alexandria, and in the 5th century by Quodvultdeus.

" 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 '.

:* 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?

In AD 400, Augustine quotes Cyprian ( AD 200 ): " For as Christ says ' I am the true vine ,' it follows that the blood of Christ is wine, not water ; and the cup cannot appear to contain His blood by which we are redeemed and quickened, if the wine be absent ; for by the wine is the blood of Christ typified, ..."

: This page is about Cyprian, bishop of Carthage.

The Plague of Cyprian is named after him due to his description of it.

* Cyprian, the bishop of Carthage, is martyred ( decapitation ).

He is praised in several letters of St. Cyprian ( see Epist.

A Saint Cyprian, disciple and biographer of St. Cæsarius of Arles, is also mentioned as a Bishop of Toulon.

This outbreak is referred to as the " Plague of Cyprian " ( the bishop of Carthage ), where both the plague and the persecution of Christians were especially severe.

In 1808, however, Timothy Coates Sr. acquired the title to of land, situated between the lands of Cyprian Wright and those of Amasa Culver, and covered by warrant No. 233 within the limits of what is now Nelson borough, and later he and his son, Lintsford, bought land and became residents of Elkland.

Allowing for their oversight of Arcadian, an obscure mountain dialect, and Cyprian, far from the center of Greek scholarship, this division of people and language is quite similar to the results of modern archaeological-linguistic investigation.

It is the term given to the predominant form of the New Testament text witnessed in the Old Latin translation from the Greek ; and also in quotations from certain 2nd and 3rd-century Christian writers, including Cyprian, Tertullian and Irenaeus.

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.

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.

The original saying by Saint Cyprian of Carthage ( 3rd century AD ) is found his Letter LXXII, Ad Jubajanum de haereticis baptizandis, and in Latin reads: " Salus extra ecclesiam non est ".

There is only one See founded on Peter by the word of the Lord ( St. Cyprian, Epistle 43 ), outside of which we cannot find either true faith or eternal salvation.

At the height of a second outbreak, the Plague of Cyprian ( 251 – 266 ), which may have been the same disease, 5, 000 people a day were said to be dying in Rome.

Novatian died in 258, probably during Valerian's persecutions, in the same year as his great opponent Cyprian.

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

Historian William McNeill asserts that the Antonine Plague and the later Plague of Cyprian ( 251 – ca. 270 ) were outbreaks of two different diseases, one of smallpox and one of measles, although not necessarily in that order.

One was a Cyprian fable about doves escaping from a sacrificial fire only to fall into another fire later on ( demonstrating that wrong-doers eventually get their just deserts ), and the other was a Carian fable about a fisherman who espies an octopus in the winter sea and wonders whether or not to dive after it, since this is a choice between his children starving or himself freezing to death ( i. e. you're damned if you do and damned if you don't ).

According to a marker that was placed on the original bridge, the architect was Maj. Salmon Wheat, a farmer who lived near the present village of Howells ; and directors of the company were Jacob Powell, president ; George Manell, treasurer ; William H. Veller, secretary ; Jonathan Hedges, a Newburgh physician ; Charles Clinton ; Levi Dodge ; Daniel Stringham ; Jonathan Fisk, a Newburgh attorney ; Cyprian Webster, Jr .; Reuben Neely, member of New York State Assembly ; Daniel C. Verplank of Fishkill ; Hamilton Morrison, later a Commissoner of Common Schools for the Town of New Windsor ; and David Crawford, a Hudson River boat captain whose former residence now houses the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands.

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

Cyprian also laid great emphasis on the fact that any minister who broke with the Church lost ipso facto the gift of the Spirit which had validated his orders.

They arise out of a primitive practice on the part of the bishop ( local president ), examples of which are found in the Didachē ( Teaching of the Apostles ) and in the letters of Clement of Rome and Cyprian.

Besides a number of epistles, which are partly collected with the answers of those to whom they were written, Cyprian wrote a number of treatises, some of which have also the character of pastoral letters.

Additionally, in 251, the Plague of Cyprian ( possibly smallpox ), broke out, causing large-scale mortality which may have seriously affected the ability of the Empire to defend itself.

The Catholic Church commemorated Cornelius by venerating him, with his Saint ’ s Day on the 16th of September, which he shares with his good friend St. Cyprian .< ref >" Saint Cornelius.

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" She wrote a poem entitled The Martyrdom of St. Cyprian in two books, of which 800 lines survived, and an inscription of a poem on the baths at Hammat Gader.

William Sanday describes him as " one of the precursors of that group of writers who, from Irenaeus to Cyprian, not only break the obscurity which rests on the earliest history of the Church, but alike in the East and in the West carry it to the front in literary eminence, and distance all their heathen contemporaries ".

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In the West there is ample evidence of the custom of praying for the dead in the inscriptions of the catacombs, with their constant prayers for the peace and refreshment of the souls of the departed and in the early liturgies, which commonly contain commemorations of the dead ; and Tertullian, Cyprian and other early Western Fathers witness to the regular practice of praying for the dead.

Basil instituted and organized the Hour of Compline for the East, as St. Benedict did for the West, there existed as early as the days of St. Cyprian and Clement of Alexandria the custom of reciting a prayer before sleep, in which practice we find the most remote origin of our Compline.

His theory of spurious origin involved Tertullian and Cyprian, and the interpretation by Augustine which led to the marginal note, and that marginal note was in the Bible text used by the author of the Confession of Faith at the Council of Carthage of 484 AD.

In his position against Cyprian knowing of the Comma, Wallace is in agreement with the earlier critical edition of the New Testament ( NA26 and UBS3 ) which considered Cyprian a witness against the Comma.

Saint Cyprian of Carthage ( 258 AD ) wrote: The episcopate is a single whole, in which each bishop enjoys full possession.

Firmilian's reasoning against the validity of heretical baptism is mainly that of Cyprian, that those who are outside the Church and have not the Holy Spirit cannot admit others to the Church or give what they do not possess: " " Very many of us meeting together in Iconium very carefully examined the matter, and we decided that every baptism was altogether to be rejected which is arranged for without the Church.

The title comes from a 19th century poem by Cyprian Norwid and references the manner in which diamonds are formed from heat and pressure acting upon coal.