Feast Day
2 saints in our library are celebrated on September 16.
Approx. 210 AD — September 14, 258 AD
A wealthy Carthaginian orator who converted in his forties and became bishop two years later, Cyprian led North Africa's church through imperial persecution and doctrinal crisis — then knelt in a Carthaginian grove and pressed gold coins into his executioners' hands before they took his head.
Approx. 360 AD — Approx. 432 AD
Ninian was a Briton who, according to tradition, studied in Rome, was consecrated bishop, and returned to establish a religious center at Whithorn in Galloway around the late 4th or early 5th century. There he built the Candida Casa — the White House — dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours, Scotland's earliest recorded stone church. From Whithorn he carried Christianity north to the Southern Picts, earning the title 'Apostle to the Southern Picts.' Much of his life is reconstructed from medieval sources written centuries after his death.