Saint Cyprianus The Witch The Saint

Cyprianus, known as the Witch, was born in Antioch, located in ancient Persia, today Iran. His parents, seeing that their son was talented enough to win the admiration of men, appointed him to the priesthood of the gods and ordered that he be given all the necessary instruction. Cyprianus learned the art of sacrificing idols. No one knew the secrets of idolatry better than he did.

At the age of thirty, Cyprianus traveled to Babylon to learn astrology and numerology, the mysteries and secrets of the Chaldeans. As well as spending all the time he could on these studies on learning other truths, Cyprianus increased his iniquity by devoting himself entirely to the study of magic in order to achieve, through this art, close relations with the devils, which led to a life that was at once tumultuous, libertine, scandalous and impure.

Although his partner, Eusebius, who had been his schoolmate, reproached Cyprianus for his bad life, he tried to pull him out of the deep abyss into which he had been thrown. Cyprianus, however, despised the exhortations and reproaches of his former colleague and used his infernal intelligence to ridicule the sacred mysteries and the virtuous doctors of the Christian law, out of hatred for which he joined the barbarian persecutors to compel Christians to deny Jesus Christ.