SAINT OF THE DAY St. Cyprian, Bishop, Martyr c.200-258 September 16—Memorial Liturgical Color: Red Patron Saint of Algeria and North Africa The faithful soak up the blood of their beheaded bishop The elegantly named Thaschus Caecilius Cyprianus was born in an uncertain year in that buzzing beehive of early Christianity known as Roman North Africa. His biography epitomizes that of many greats of his era: a classically educated Roman citizen of renown finds Christ as an adult, leaves behind his ex