[Rank]
Ss. Cornelii and Cypriani Pontificium Martyrum;;Semiduplex;;2.1;;vide C3

[Rule]
vide C3;
9 lectiones

[Oratio]
Lord, we beseech thee that the precious testifying of thy blessed Martyrs and~
Bishops Cornelius and Cyprian may profit us, and their godly prayers protect us.
$Per Dominum

[Commemoratio]
!Commemoratio Ss. Euphemiae, Luciae and Geminiani Martyrum.
Ant. In heaven do rejoice the souls of the Saints * who have followed the steps~
of Christ; and because they shed their blood for the love of Christ, therefore~
shall they be made glad for ever with Christ.
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V. Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye just,
R. And glory, all ye right of heart.
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$Oremus.
Be ready, O Lord, to listen unto our joyful prayers, and grant that as we do~
year by year in love and earnestness recall the day whereon thy blessed~
witnesses Euphemia, Lucy, and Geminian suffered for thy sake, so we may also~
have the grace to imitate the firmness of their faith.
$Per Dominum

[Lectio4]
Cornelius was a Roman who held the Popedom during the reign of the Emperors~
Gallus and Volusian. He, and that most holy Lady Lucina, took the bodies of the~
Apostles Peter and Paul out of the Catacombs and put them in more convenient~
places. Lucina laid the body of Paul in a farm of her own upon the road to Ostia,~
hard by the place where he had received the sword-stroke. Cornelius placed that~
of the Prince of the Apostles hard by where he had been crucified. When this was~
told to the Emperors, and likewise that Cornelius was the means of making many~
Christians, he was banished to Civita Vecchia, where Cyprian, the holy Bishop~
of Carthage, comforted him by letters.

[Lectio5]
They continued thus to write often one to the other, till the Emperors took in~
bad part these exchanges of Christian love, and sent for Cornelius to Rome.~
There they commanded him to be lashed with scourges loaded with lead as though~
he were a traitor, and then to be carried to offer sacrifice before the image of~
Mars. He firmly refused to commit this great wickedness, and was forthwith~
beheaded, upon the 14th day of September, (in the year of our Lord 252.) The~
blessed Lucina, with the help of the clergy, buried his body in the sand-pit on~
her own farm, near the Cemetery of Kallistus. He lived as Pope about two years.

[Lectio6]
Cypriam was an African. He was first distinguished as a teacher of Rhetorick. He~
afterwards became a Christian at the persuasion of the Priest Caecilius, whose~
surname he took, and parted all his goods among the poor. It was not long before~
he was chosen a Priest, and then made Bishop of Carthage. It would be idle to~
enlarge upon his, wit, seeing that his works are as well known as the sun. He~
suffered under the Emperors Valerian and Gallienus, in the eighth persecution,~
and upon the same day, though not in the same year, that Cornelius testified at~
Rome.

[Lectio93]
!Commemoratio for the other Holy Martyrs.
Euphemia, Lucy, and Geminian were all crowned with Martyrdom in the persecution~
under Diocletian, upon the same day, though not in the same place. Euphemia was a~
maiden of Chalcedon, who suffered divers tortures under the Proconsul Priscus.~
She endured unflinchingly the rods, the rack, the wheels, and the fire, and in~
the end was thrown to wild beasts. These all licked her feet, save one, which~
gave her holy body such a bite, that she forthwith resigned her guileless spirit~
to God. Lucy was a widow at Rome, who was accused by her own son Eutropius, for~
that she had for many years worshipped Christ. She was put into a vessel of hot~
pitch and lead, but came forth unhurt. As she was being haled through the city~
loaded with iron and lead, the sight of her faith and unwavering testification~
turned to Christ the nobleman Geminian. He was one of many whom she had brought~
to the faith, and she had him for a comrade in her glorious martyrdom, for he~
was divers ways tormented, and then beheaded. Their bodies were given honourable~
burial by the Christian lady Maxima.
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[Lectio94]
Cornelius, a Roman, was Pope under the Emperors Gallus and Volusianus. He strongly resisted the heresy of Novatian, wrote many things with great charity concerning those who had fallen away ; and we possess eight letters addressed to him by St. Cyprian. In exile at Civitavecchia, worn out with hardships, he died a martyr. Cyprian, an African, was first a famous teacher of Rhetorick ; then, at the persuasion of the priest Cecilius, from whom he took his surname, he became a Christian and gave all his substance away to the poor. After a short time he was made priest and then appointed Bishop of Carthage. He also wrote much against the schism of Novatian and tried in every way to repair the injuries suffered by the Church. It would be needless to give an account of his wisdom, for his works outshine the sun. He suffered in the eighth persecution under the Emperors Valerian and Gallienus.
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