Cyprian Church

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Cyprian churches are church buildings that are consecrated to the martyr Cyprian of Antioch († 304) or the church father Cyprian of Carthage (around 200-258).

Churches consecrated to Saint Cyprian of Antioch or the martyr couple Cyprian and Justina of Antioch :

Well-known churches in honor of Cyprian of Carthage (in Germany his patronage is often found in combination with St. Bishop Cornelius of Rome as St. Cornelius and Cyprian ):

literature

  • Brian Møller Jensen: The Story of Justina and Cyprian of Antioch as told in a Medieval Lectionary from Piacenza . Stockholm 2012.
  • Sigrid Popp: The frescoes of St. Vigil and St. Zyprian. Studies of wall painting in Bolzano around 1400 . Marburg 2003.
  • Tobias F. Korta: Notes from the Cyprians patronage for the foundation of the "capella" . In: ders .: Kappel am Rhein in the Middle Ages . Ettlingen 2018, pp. 62–72, p. 67 f. with evidence of the spread of the worship of Cyprian of Antioch and Cyprian of Carthage.