Cyprian and Justina


Cyprian and Justina
Cyprian and Justina, icon from Bulgaria
Martyrs
Born3rd century AD
DiedSeptember 26, 304
Nicomedia, Bithynia, Asia Minor, Roman Empire
(modern-day İzmit, Kocaeli, Turkey)
Venerated inOriental Orthodoxy
Eastern Orthodox Church
Roman Catholic Church
Feast

Saints Cyprian and Justina (Greek: Κυπριανός & Ίουστίνη) are honored in the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church and Oriental Orthodoxy as Christians of Antioch, who in 304, during the Diocletianic Persecution, suffered martyrdom at Nicomedia (modern-day İzmit, Turkey) on September 26. According to Roman Catholic sources, no Bishop of Antioch bore the name of Cyprian.[1]

The historian of religion Gilles Quispel has argued that the story of Cyprian is a prototype of the Faust story.[2]

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  2. ^ Gilles Quispel, "Faust: Symbol of Western Man", in G. Quispel, Gnostic Studies (Two volumes, Istanbul: Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Institut, 1975), Vol. II p. 288-307. Originally published in 1967 as a monograph (Zurich: Rhein-Verlag).