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A passage in the New Testament which is seen by some to be a prayer for the dead is found in 2 Timothy 1:16–18, which reads as follows: . May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord's mercy on that day); and in how many ...
Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi // ⓘ, OCSO (September 1903 – 20 January 1964) was an Igbo Nigerian priest of the Catholic Church who worked in the Archdiocese of Onitsha and later became a Trappist monk at Mount Saint Bernard Monastery in England. On 22 March 1998, he was beatified by Pope John Paul II. His feast day is 20 January.
Cyprian (/ ˈ s ɪ p r i ən /; Latin: Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus; c. 210 to 14 September 258 AD [1]) was a bishop of Carthage and an early Christian writer of Berber descent, many of whose Latin works are extant.
Saint Cyprian and the demon, 14th-century manuscript of the Golden Legend.. Cyprian, known by the title of "the Magician", to distinguish him from Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, received a liberal education in his youth, and particularly applied himself to astrology; after which he traveled for improvement through Greece, Egypt, India, etc. [3] Cyprian was a magician in Antioch and dealt in sorcery.
The monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate wrote in their Book of Saints (1921), . Montanus, Lucius, Julian, Victorious, Flavian and Others (SS.) MM. (Feb. 24) (3rd cent.) Some of the many Christians, disciples of Saint Cyprian of Carthage, who were put to death during the fierce persecution of Christianity under the Emperor Valerian (A.D. 2
Cyprian had been a controversial figure in his lifetime; and even after his death Pontius felt the need to react to some of the criticism he received. The life takes on a particularly apologetic character in its treatment of Cyprian's election to bishop, which some Carthaginians contested (5, 6) and of Cyprian's decision to go into hiding ...
the development of diverse oral traditions concerning St Cyprian. [12] the collection of the oral traditions into a "standard" Book of Cyprian, which in turn gave rise to further oral traditions about the book itself. [13] the standardized book being rearranged, expanded, and redacted with the advent of the printing press and South American ...
The last rites, also known as the Commendation of the Dying, are the last prayers and ministrations given to an individual of Christian faith, when possible, shortly before death. [1] The Commendation of the Dying is practiced in liturgical Christian denominations , such as the Roman Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church . [ 2 ]