Note 685 — BOOK IV[649]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
St. Cyprian (circa 200-258), Bishop of Carthage, persecuted under Decius, and exiled and martyred under Valerian. He was the author of the famous treatise on the Lapsed from which the above quotation is taken. St. Cyprian is honoured on the 16th of September.—T.