![]() I clearly understood that what had first lived within me, enslaved by the vices of the flesh, was earthly and that what, instead, the Holy Spirit had wrought within me was divine and heavenly. Then, in a wondrous manner, every doubt began to fade. But after that, with the help of the water of new birth, the stain of my former life was washed away, and a light from above, serene and pure, was infused into my reconciled heart. I myself was held in bonds by the innumerable errors of my previous life, from which I did not believe I could possibly be delivered, so I was disposed to acquiesce in my clinging vices and to indulge my sins. When I was still lying in darkness and gloomy night, I used to regard it as extremely difficult and demanding to do what God's mercy was suggesting to me. ![]() Cyprian described his own conversion and baptism in the following words: In the early days of his conversion, he wrote an Epistola ad Donatum de gratia Dei and the Testimoniorum Libri III that adhere closely to the models of Tertullian, who influenced his style and thinking. After his baptism, he gave away a portion of his wealth to the poor of Carthage, as befitted a man of his status. After a "dissipated youth", Cyprian was baptized when he was thirty-five years old, c. Before his conversion, he was a leading member of a legal fraternity in Carthage, an orator, a "pleader in the courts", and a teacher of rhetoric. His original name was Thascius he took the additional name Caecilius in memory of the priest to whom he owed his conversion. Early life Ĭyprian was born into a rich pagan Berber ( Roman African), Carthaginian family sometime during the early third century. His skillful Latin rhetoric led to his being considered the pre-eminent Latin writer of Western Christianity until Jerome and Augustine. A controversial figure during his lifetime, his strong pastoral skills, firm conduct during the Novatianist heresy and outbreak of the Plague of Cyprian (named after him due to his description of it), and eventual martyrdom at Carthage established his reputation and proved his sanctity in the eyes of the Church. Soon after converting to Christianity, he became a bishop in 249. ![]() ![]() He was born around the beginning of the 3rd century in North Africa, perhaps at Carthage, where he received a classical education. He is recognized as a saint in the Western and Eastern churches. 210 – 14 September 258 AD ) was a bishop of Carthage and an early Christian writer of Berber descent, many of whose Latin works are extant. 16 September ( Catholic Church, Western Orthodox, and Lutheran)Ĭyprian ( / ˈ s ɪ p r i ən/ Latin: Thaschus Caecilius Cyprianus c. ![]()
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