CYPRIAN OF THE NATIVITY. - Discalced Carmelite, in the world André de Compans, b. in Paris on 26 Nov. 1605, d. there on 16 Sept. 1680. He entered the Order already a priest.

He translated from Spanish the works of St. Teresa (Paris 1644) and of St. John of the Cross (ibid. 1641, 2nd ed. 1665). He also wrote: Le monde saint où est tracé le moyen de vivre saintement dans toutes sortes d'états (Paris 1650); De l'exercice de l'oraison pour toutes sortes d'états (ibid. 1650); Description des ermitages et de la vie érmitique des carmes déchaux (ibid. 1651, 2nd ed. 1668); La destruction du duel (ibid. 1651); La clef des trésors célestes, ou exercice de la présence de Dieu (ibid. and Brussels 1662); Pratique chrétienne et préparation à bien mourir (5th ed., Paris 1651); Recueil des vertus et des écrits de la baronne de Neuvillette (ibid. 1660); Conseils spirituels (ibid. 1661); Suavité de la croix (ibid. 1661); Réflexions sur l'éternité (ibid. 1672); Le bouclier de la piété chrétienne (Antwerp 1706); and many others.

Bibliography2 works

BIBL.: C. de Villiers, Bibl. Carm., I, Orléans 1752, pp. 255-357; E. d'Alençon, s. v. in DThC, III, II, col. 2475.

Ambrogio di Santa Teresa

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