Cyprianus (volle naam: Thascius Caecilius Cyprianus, 210-258 nC) was ‘n belangrike biskop van Kartago en vroeë Christelike skrywer uit die 3de eeu. Hy was waarskynlik van welgestelde Puniese of Berberse afkoms en het eers later in sy lewe tot bekering gekom. Sy feesdag as heilige is 31 Augustus in die Ortodokse Kerk, 14 September in die Katolieke Kerk en 15 September in die Anglikaanse Kerk.

Aanhalings

Homoseksualiteit
“[T]urn your looks to the abominations, not less to be deplored, of another kind of spectacle. . . . Men are emasculated, and all the pride and vigor of their sex is effeminated in the disgrace of their enervated body; and he is more pleasing there who has most completely broken down the man into the woman. He grows into praise by virtue of his crime; and the more he is degraded, the more skillful he is considered to be. Such a one is looked upon—oh shame!—and looked upon with pleasure. . . . Nor is there wanting authority for the enticing abomination . . . that Jupiter of theirs [is] not more supreme in dominion than in vice, inflamed with earthly love in the midst of his own thunders . . . now breaking forth by the help of birds to violate the purity of boys. And now put the question: Can he who looks upon such things be healthy-minded or modest? Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion”

Andere bronne

• Cyprian (Wikipedia)
• History of the Catholic Church and homosexuality (Wikipedia)
• Christianity and Homosexuality
• What the Early Church Believed: Homosexuality (Catholic Answers)