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EUGENIUS III

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 886 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EUGENIUS III . (Bernardo Paganelli), See also:pope from the 15th cf See also:February 1145 tO the 8th of See also:July 1153, a native of See also:Pisa, was See also:abbot of the Cistercian monastery of St See also:Anastasius at See also:Rome when suddenly elected to succeed See also:Lucius II. His friend and instructor, See also:Bernard of See also:Clairvaux, the most influential ecclesiastic of the See also:time, remonstrated against his See also:election on See also:account of his " innocence and simplicity," but Bernard soon acquiesced and continued to be the mainstay of the papacy throughout En-See also:genius's pontificate. It was to Eugenius that Bernard addressed his famous See also:work De consideratione. Immediately after his election, the See also:Roman senators demanded the pope's renunciation of temporal See also:power. He refused and fled to Farfa, where he was consecrated on the 17th of February. By treaty of See also:December 1145 he recognized the See also:republic under his See also:suzerainty, substituted a papal See also:prefect for the " patrician " and returned to Rome. The celebrated schismatic, See also:Arnold of See also:Brescia, however, put himself again at the See also:head of the party opposed to the temporal power of the papacy, re-established the patricianate, and forced the pope to leave Rome. Eugenius had already, on See also:hearing of the fall of See also:Edessa, addressed a See also:letter to See also:Louis VII. of See also:France (December 1145), announcing the Second Crusade and granting plenary See also:indulgence under the usual conditions to those who would take the See also:cross; and in See also:January 1147 he journeyed to France to further preparations for the See also:holy See also:war and to seek aid in the See also:constant feuds at Rome. After holding synods at See also:Paris,, See also:Reims and See also:Trier, he returned to See also:Italy in See also:June 1148 and took up his See also:residence at See also:Viterbo. The following See also:month he excommunicated Arnold of Brescia in a See also:synod at See also:Cremona, and thenceforth devoted most of his energies to the recovery of his see. As the result of negotiations between See also:Frederick See also:Barbarossa and the See also:Romans, Eugenius was finally enabled to return to Rome in December 1152, but died in the following July.

He was succeeded by Anastasius IV. Eugenius retained the stoic virtues of See also:

monasticism throughout his stormy career, and was deeply reverenced for his See also:personal See also:character. His See also:tomb in St See also:Peter's acquit .d fame for miraculous See also:cures, and he was pronounced blessed by See also:Pius IX. in 1872. The See also:chief See also:sources for the career of Eugenius III. are his letters in J. P. See also:Migne, See also:Patrol. See also:Lat., vols. 1o6, 18o, 182, and in Bibliolheque de l'Ecole See also:des See also:Charles, vol. 57 (Paris, 1896) ; the See also:life by See also:Cardinal Boso in J. M. Watterich, Pontif. Roman. vitae, vol.

2; and the life by See also:

John of See also:Salisbury in Monumenta Germaniae historica. Scriptores, vol. 2o. See J. See also:Langen, Geschichte der romischen Kirche von Gregor VII. bis Innocenz III. (See also:Bonn, 1893) ; F. See also:Gregorovius, Rome in the See also:Middle Ages, vol. 4, trans. by Mrs G. W. See also:Hamilton (See also:London, 1900-1902) ; K. J. von See also:Hefele, Conciliengeschichte, Bd. 5, 2nd ed.; Jaffe-See also:Wattenbach, Regesta pontif.

Roman. (1885–1888); M. Jocham, Geschichte des Lebens u. der Verehrung des seligen Papstes Eugen III. (See also:

Augsburg, 1873) ; G. Sainaci, Vita del beato Eugenio III (Pisa, 1868) ; J. Jastrow and G. See also:Winter, Deutsche Geschichte See also:im Zeitalter der See also:Hohenstaufen, i. (See also:Stuttgart, 1897) ; C. See also:Neumann, Bernhard von Clairvaux u. See also:die Anfange der zweiten Kreuzzuges (See also:Heidelberg, 1882) ; B. Kugler, Analekten zur Geschichte des zweiten Kreuzzugs (See also:Tubingen, 1878, 1883). (C. H.

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