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Epistles of Cyprian by Saint Cyprian of Carthage
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Little is known of the early history of Thascius Cyprian until the period of his intimacy with the Carthaginian presbyter Cæcilius, which led to his conversion A.D. 246. That he was born of respectable parentage, and highly educated for the profession of a rhetorician, is all that can be said with any degree of certainty. At his baptism he assumed the name of his friend Cæcilius, and devoted him self, with all the energies of an ardent and vigorous mind, to the study and practice of Christianity.His ordination and his elevation to the episcopate rapidly followed his conversion. With some resistance on his own part, and not without great objections on the part of older presbyters, who saw themselves superseded by his promotion, the popular urgency constrained him to accept the office of bishop of Carthage [A.D. 248], which he held until his martyrdom [A.D. 258].The writings of Cyprian, apart from their intrinsic worth, have a very considerable historical interest and value, as illu
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The Life and Passion of Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr by Pontius the Deacon
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To Donatus [AD 246]
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To the Carthaginian clergy from the clergy of Rome, about Cyprian's retirement [AD 250]
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To the presbyters and deacons abiding at Rome [AD 250]
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To the presbyters and deacons of Carthage [AD 250]
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To the same [AD 250]
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To Rogatianus the presbyter, and the other confessors [AD 250]
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To the clergy, concerning prayer to God [AD 250]
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To the Martyrs and confessors [AD 250]
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To the clergy, concerning granting peace to the lapsed prematurely, without the privity of the bishops [AD 250]
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To the martyrs and confessors who sought that peace should be granted to the lapsed [AD 250]
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To his people [AD 250]
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To the clergy, concerning the lapsed and catechumens, that they should not be left without superintendence [AD 250]
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To the clergy, concerning those who were in haste to receive peace [AD 250]
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To the presbyters and deacons assembled at Rome [AD 250]
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To Moyses and Maximus, and the rest of the confessors [AD 250]
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The confessors to Cyprian [AD 250]
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To the presbyters and deacons about the foregoing and following letters [AD 250]
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Caldonius to Cyprian [AD 250]
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Cyprian to Caldonius [AD 250]
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Celerinus to Lucian [AD 250]
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Lucian to Celerinus [AD 250]
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To the clergy at Rome, concerning the confessors, and the forwardness of Lucian, and the modesty of Celerinus [AD 250]
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To the clergy, on the letters sent to Rome; and about the appointment of Saturus as reader and Optatus as subdeacon [AD 250]
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To Moyses and Maximus and the rest of the confessors [AD 250]
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Moyses, Maximus, Nicostratus, and the other confessors, in reply [AD 250]
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Cyprian to the lapsed [AD 250]
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To the presbyters and deacons [AD 250]
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To the presbyters and deacons abiding at Rome [AD 250]
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The presbyters and deacons abiding at Rome to Cyprian [AD 250]
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The Roman clergy to Cyprian [AD 250]
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To the Carthaginian clergy, about the letters sent to Rome and received thence [AD 250]
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To the clergy and people about the ordination of Aurelius as a reader [AD 250]
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To the same about the ordination of Celerinus as a reader [AD 250]
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To the same about the ordination of Numidicus as presbyter [AD 250]
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To the clergy, concerning the case of the poor and strangers [AD 250]
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To the clergy, bidding them show every kindness to the confessors in prison [AD 251 or 250]
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To Caldonius, Herculanus, and others, about the Excommunication of Felicissimus [AD 250]
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Caldonius, Herculanus, and others, on the Excommunication of Felicissimus with his people [AD 251]
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To the people, concerning five schismatic presbyters of the faction of Felicissimus [AD 251]
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To Cornelius on his refusal to receive Novatian's ordination [AD 251]
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To Cornelius about Cyprian's approval of his ordination, and concerning Felicissimus [AD 251]
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To the same on his having sent letters to the confessors whom Novatian had seduced [AD 251]
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To the Roman confessors, urging their return to unity [AD 251]
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To Cornelius, concerning Polycarp the Adrumetine [AD 251]
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Cornelius to Cyprian on the return of the confessors to unity [AD 251]
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Cyprian to Cornelius, congratulating him on the return of the confessors from schism [AD 251]
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Cornelius to Cyprian, concerning the faction of Novatian with his party [AD 251]
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Cyprian's answer to Cornelius concerning the crimes of Novatus [AD 251]
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Maximus and the other confessors to Cyprian about their return from schism [AD 251]
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Little is known of the early history of Thascius Cyprian until the period of his intimacy with the Carthaginian presbyter Cæcilius, which led to his conversion A.D. 246. That he was born of respectable parentage, and highly educated for the profession of a rhetorician, is all that can be said with any degree of certainty. At his baptism he assumed the name of his friend Cæcilius, and devoted him self, with all the energies of an ardent and vigorous mind, to the study and practice of Christianity.His ordination and his elevation to the episcopate rapidly followed his conversion. With some resistance on his own part, and not without great objections on the part of older presbyters, who saw themselves superseded by his promotion, the popular urgency constrained him to accept the office of bishop of Carthage [A.D. 248], which he held until his martyrdom [A.D. 258].The writings of Cyprian, apart from their intrinsic worth, have a very considerable historical interest and value, as illu
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