Saint Cyprian of Carthage was born around the year 190 in Carthage, North Africa. He was an adult convert to the faith in 246. He was ordained a year later and two years later he became bishop of Carthage. Beginning the following year, he lived in hiding and ministered to his flock because of the persecution of Decius. He was a writer of great importance, only second to Tertullian. He supported Pope Saint Cornelius. In 257, during the persecutions of Valerian he was exiled to Curubis, he was then brought back to Carthage, and then was martyred in 258 on September 14.
"God is one and Christ is one, and his Church is one; one is the faith, and one is the people cemented together by harmony into the strong unity of a body…. If we are the heirs of Christ, let us abide in the peace of Christ; if we are the sons of God, let us be lovers of peace."
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