St. Ciprian - Bellavista, Nayarit, Mexico
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N 21° 33.796 W 104° 53.018
13Q E 512047 N 2384492
Located in the town church...known as "Parroquia de Ntra. Sra. de Guadalupe".
Waymark Code: WM159AP
Location: Nayarit, Mexico
Date Posted: 11/13/2021
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This sculpture of St. Ciprian (known as San Cipriano in Spanish). Here Cyprian is depicted standing and holding his Bishop's staff in his right hand while holding an open book with his left. He wears red robes over a white tunic.
Wikipedia (
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"Cyprian
Cyprian (... Latin: Thaschus Caecilius Cyprianus; c. 210 – September 14, 258 AD) was a bishop of Carthage and a notable early Christian writer of Berber descent, many of whose Latin works are extant. He is recognized as a saint in the Western and Eastern churches.
Saint Cyprian...
He was born around the beginning of the 3rd century in North Africa, perhaps at Carthage, where he received a classical education. Soon after converting to Christianity, he became a bishop in 249. A controversial figure during his lifetime, his strong pastoral skills, firm conduct during the Novatianist heresy and outbreak of the Plague of Cyprian (named after him due to his description of it), and eventual martyrdom at Carthage established his reputation and proved his sanctity in the eyes of the Church.
His skillful Latin rhetoric led to his being considered the pre-eminent Latin writer of Western Christianity until Jerome and Augustine."