Cyprian and Justina, martyrs of Antioch, c.300, whose supposed relics are in the baptistery of St. John Lateran. A worthless Legend made Cyprian a magician who tried to seduce the Christian Justina, but was converted by her: he later became a bishop and she an abbess; both were beheaded at Nicomedia, and sailors brought their relics to Rome. Feast: 26 September, suppressed by the Holy See in 1969.
Bibliography
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- AA.SS. Sept. VII (1760), 195–262
- H. Delehaye, ‘Cyprien d'Antioche et Cyprien de Carthage’, Anal. Boll., xxxix (1921), 314–32
