San Cornelio

Cuenta que los obispos Félix y Sabino habían venido a Cartago para quejarse. Habían sido ordenados legítimamente por los obispos de la provincia en lugar de los anteriores obispos, Basílides y Martialis, quienes habían aceptado libelli en la persecución. Basílides había blasfemado más a Dios, enfermo, había confesado su blasfemia, había renunciado voluntariamente a su obispado y había agradecido que se le permitiera la comunión laical.

21 de septiembre

Emana de un concilio de treinta y siete obispos, y obviamente fue compuesto por Cipriano. Está dirigido al horarios de misas en usa sacerdote Félix y al pueblo de Legio y Asturica, y al diácono Ælius y al pueblo de Emerita, en España.

In Carthage, Fortunatus, who opposed absolution, was elected by Cyprian’s opponents as bishop of Carthage. Further, Novatian, aided by Novatus, convinced three Roman bishops to place Novatian on the cathedra of Rome while Bp. Cyprian entered the battle with a series of encyclicals to the African bishops that was later produced as the book, On the Unity of the Church. Support for the extreme measures by those who opposed absolution were moderated by Bp.

Pero es obvio que el concilio africano había escuchado sólo a una de las partes, mientras que Félix y Sabino debieron haber defendido su causa en Roma antes de llegar a África. Por este motivo, los africanos parecen haber hecho un juicio demasiado apresurado. Cipriano explicó su conducta gloria oracion (Ep. Xx) y envió a Roma copias de trece de las cartas que había escrito desde su escondite a Cartago. Esto fue un ultraje a la disciplina, sin embargo, Cipriano estaba dispuesto a dar algo de valor a las indulgencias concedidas indebidamente, pero todo debe hacerse en sumisión al obispo.

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Cyprian lost all his possessions in this persecution but avoided capture by going into hiding. He governed his diocese remotely through letters and was compelled to defend his flight against criticism levelled by bishops in both Rome and North Africa that he was avoiding martyrdom. Once the tide of persecution subsided, Cyprian returned to Carthage and was lenient but clear, like his contemporary Pope Cornelius, in reintegrating the lapsi back into the Church once they had performed a suitable penance. In 251, Cyprian called a local council that decreed that it was possible to receive the lapsed back into the church after a penance. In the meantime, the priest Novatus joined with a priest of Rome, Novatian, in a schism of the church by asserting that those who lapsed during the persecution could not be readmitted even if they repented their sin.

• He governed his diocese remotely through letters and was compelled to defend his flight against criticism levelled by bishops in both Rome and North Africa that he was avoiding martyrdom.
• In 251, Cyprian called a local council that decreed that it was possible to receive the lapsed back into the church after a penance.
• Once the tide of persecution subsided, Cyprian returned to Carthage and was lenient but clear, like his contemporary Pope Cornelius, in reintegrating the lapsi back into the Church once they had performed a suitable penance.
• Cyprian lost all his possessions in this persecution but avoided capture by going into hiding.
• In Carthage, Fortunatus, who opposed absolution, was elected by Cyprian’s opponents as bishop of Carthage.

Cyprian’s writings raising him in the eyes of the people and increased further by their witness of his self-denying devotion during a great plague and famine that descended on Africa. He kept in constant touch with the Carthaginian Christians through his epistles, and he wrote letters to santa misa presbyters, confessors and martyrs. Some Christians, broken by torture, offered sacrifice to the pagan gods. These lapsed Christians appealed to the confessors, asking to give them what is called a letter of reconciliation, i.e. a certificate for accepting them back into the Church.

Martialis se había entregado a banquetes paganos y había enterrado a sus hijos en un cementerio pagano. Había testificado públicamente ante el procurator ducenarius que había negado a Cristo. Por tanto, la carta es una declaración de que Esteban fue engañado perversamente. No se le imputa ninguna falta, no hay ningún reclamo para revocar su decisión o denegar su derecho a darla; simplemente se señala que se basó en información falsa, por lo que era nula.

It was necessary to determine the sincerity of contrition of the lapsed. To admit them was possible only after penance, and with the permission of the bishop. Some of the lapsed insistently demanded their immediate re-admittance into the Church and caused unrest in the whole community. la virgen de guadalupe wrote the bishops of other dioceses asking their opinion, and from all he received full approval of his directives.