Who
Rhetorician converted about 246, bishop of Carthage from 249 and beheaded under Valerian in 258, the first African bishop to die a martyr. On the Unity of the Church, On the Lapsed, On the Lord's Prayer and eighty-one letters from the Decian persecution set out the Church as the mother without whom "he cannot have God for his Father". The chain quotes him for the Church's motherhood and for the sacraments.
Lineage
In the succession →See of Carthage, 249–258.
Quoted in
Book I · Book II · Book III · …
Letter 1 · Letter 2 · Letter 3 · Letter 4 · Letter 5 · …
Matthew 26:27–29 · Matthew 6:5–6 · Matthew 6:9 · Matthew 6:10 · Matthew 6:11 · …
Chapter 1 · Chapter 2 · Chapter 3 · Chapter 4 · Chapter 5 · …
Luke 11:37–44 · Luke 3:21–22
An Address to Demetrianus
On Jealousy and Envy
On the Advantage of Patience
On the Dress of Virgins
On the Lapsed
On the Lord's Prayer
On the Mortality
On the Unity of the Church
On the Vanity of Idols
On Works and Alms