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These two pastoral addresses of the intensely devout bishop Cyprian reveal the aftermath of the persecution by the Emperor Decius. This is an important document that helps readers understand how the church dealt with persecution, those who failed to resist persecution, and forgiveness.

Caecilius Cyprianus was Bishop of Carthage 249–258. In this short period, he led his flock through a two years’ persecution, defended the unity of the Church against two schismatical movements, was the soul of the city’s morale during a devastating plague,1 had a sharp conflict with the Bishop of Rome over the validity of heretical baptism, and was beheaded, a martyr for the faith, in a second persecution. The two treatises here translated belong to the earlier period of his episcopate,
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