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Saint Cyprian appears to have been present in 524 at the synod of Arles and in the following years to have attended a number of councils.
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Cyprian Toulon
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Born at Marseilles, he was the favorite pupil of Saint Caesarius of Arles by whom he was trained. Caesarius ordained him in 506 to the diaconate, and, in 516, consecrated him as bishop of Toulon. Soon after the death of Caesarius (d 543) Cyprian wrote a life of his great teacher in two books, being moved to the undertaking by the entreaty of the Abbess Caesaria the Younger, who had been the head of the convent at Arles since 529.
The life is one of the most valuable biographical remains of the sixth century.
The main part of the work up to the fortieth chapter of the first book was most probably written by Cyprian himself. In 1892 the Monumenta Germaniae Historica series published another writing of his, a letter to the Bishop Street Maximus of Geneva, which discusses some of the disputed theological questions of that age (Wilhelm Gundlach & Ernst Dümmler (edd), Epistolae Merowingici et Karolini aevi (I), 1892 (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Epistolae (Quart), t.
III), pp. 434-436).
The biography was edited by d"Achery and Mabillon in the Acta Sanctorum Ord.
South. Benedicti, Venice 1733, volunteer i. p. 636ff, also in the Bollandists" Acta Sanctorum under date of August
27). A modern English translation is West.E. Klingshirn, Caesarius of Arles: Life, Testament, Letters.
Translated Texts for Historians, 19 (Liverpool, 1994). The feast of Saint Cyprian falls on 3 October.
