Editing Cyprian (section)

== Veneration ==
Churches were erected over his tomb and over the place of his death. In later centuries, however, these churches were destroyed by the [[Vandals]]. The graves of such saints as Cyprian and [[Martin of Tours]] came to be regarded as "contact points between Heaven and Earth", and they became the centres of new, redefined, Christian urban communities.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=XxiFBAAAQBAJ&dq=Veneration+of+Saint+Cyprian&pg=PT272 Arnold, John H., ''The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity'', OUP Oxford, 2014] {{ISBN|9780191015014}}</ref> A surviving homily from [[St. Augustine|Augustine]] on Cyprian's feast day indicates that his following was fairly widespread throughout Africa by the fourth century.

[[Charlemagne]] is said to have had the bones transferred to France; and [[Lyons]], [[Arles]], [[Venice]], [[Compiègne]], and Roenay in Flanders all have claimed to possess part of the martyr's relics.

The Catholic Church celebrates his feast day together with that of his good friend [[Pope Cornelius]] on 16 September,<ref name=Walsh/> and in the Catholic Middle Ages the Sarum use observed it on the day of his death, 14 September. The Eastern Orthodox Church commemorates him on 31 August.<ref>[https://www.goarch.org/chapel/saints?contentid=2233 "Cyprian the Hieromartyr & Bishop of Carthage", Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]</ref> Lutherans now commemorate him on 16 September, while Anglicans celebrate his feast usually either on 13 September (e.g. the Anglican Church of Australia) or 15 September (the present-day [[Church of England]] [[Calendar of saints (Church of England)|Calendar of saints]]) remembers him with a [[Lesser Festival (Anglicanism)|Lesser Festival]].