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✦ Feast Day

Feast of Cyprian of Carthage

Cyprian is the ideal witness to Petrine primacy precisely because he was in conflict with Rome. He disputed the Pope's ruling on rebaptism — and yet, in his treatise on Church unity, he calls Rome the chair of Peter and says whoever deserts it does not hold the faith. A man who argues against Rome while affirming its theological centrality is the strongest possible witness to that centrality.