At Carthage, the passion of Saint Cyprian, bishop, most renowned for his holiness and learning, who in most calamitous times governed the Church admirably and strengthened the confessors of the faith in their sufferings. Under the emperors Valerian and Gallienus, after a harsh exile, in the presence of a very great crowd of people, being ordered by the proconsul to be put to death by the sword, he accomplished his martyrdom. His memorial is celebrated two days hence.
September 14th
Saint Cyprian, Bishop and Martyr
Latin Original
Carthágine, pássio sancti Cypriáni, epíscopi, sanctitáte et doctrína clarissimi, qui funestíssimis tempóribus Ecclésiam óptime rexit, confessóres fídei in s&erüámnis firmávit et, Valeriáno et Galliéno princípibus, post durum exsílium, coram frequentíssimo pópulo a procónsule gládio animadvérti iussus martyrium consummávit. Eius memória peréndie celebrátur.