Epistles of Cyprian of Carthage — Epistle 81

St. Cyprian of Carthage

1. 0. Greeting
2. Chapter 1
3. Chapter 2

To Successus on the Tidings Brought from Rome, Telling of the Persecution.

Argument.— Cyprian Tells the Bishop Successus, that in a Severe Persecution that Had Been Decreed by the Emperor Valerian Xistus the Bishop Had Suffered at Rome on the Eighth of the Ides of August; And He Begs Him to Intimate the Same to the Rest of His Colleagues, that Each One Might Animate His Own Flock to Martyrdom.