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date: 24 June 2025

St Cyprian c.ad 200–258
Roman writer and martyr; Bishop of Carthage 

  1. He cannot have God for his father who has not the church for his mother.
    De Ecclesiae Catholicae Unitate sect. 6; see Augustine
  2. Our brethren who have been freed from the world by the summons of the Lord should not be mourned, since we know that they are not lost but sent before.
    De Mortalite ch. 20 (ed. M. L. Hannam, 1933); see Norton, Rogers
  3. There cannot be salvation for any, except in the Church.
    Epistle Ad Pomponium, De Virginibus sect. 4; see Augustine, Cyprian