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LUCIFER (d. 370/1)

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LUCIFER (d. 370/1) , See also:bishop of Cagliari (hence called Caralitanus), an ardent supporter of the cause of See also:Athanasius. After the unfavourable result of the See also:synod of See also:Arles in 353 he volunteered to endeavour to obtain a new and impartial See also:council. He was accordingly sent by See also:Pope Liberius, with Pancratius the See also:presbyter and See also:Hilarius the See also:deacon, but could not prevent the condemnation of Athanasius, which was renewed at See also:Milan in 355. For his own persistent adherence to the orthodox creed he was banished to Germanicia in Commagene; he afterwards lived at See also:Eleutheropolis in See also:Palestine, and finally in the upper Thebaid. His See also:exile came to an end with the publication of See also:Julian's See also:edict in 362. From 363 until his See also:death in 371 he lived at Cagliari in a See also:state of voluntary separation from ecclesiastical fellowship with his former See also:friends See also:Eusebius of See also:Vercelli, Athanasius and the See also:rest, on See also:account of their mild decision at the synod of See also:Alexandria in 362 with reference to the treatment of those who had unwillingly Arianized under the persecutions of See also:Constantius. Lucifer was hardly sufficiently educated to appreciate the real question at issue, and the See also:sect which he thus founded did not continue See also:long after his death. It is doubtful whether it ever formulated any distinctive See also:doctrine; certainly it See also:developed none of any importance. The memory of Lucifer is still cherished in See also:Sardinia; but, although popularly regarded there as a See also:saint, he has never been canonized. The controversial writings of Lucifer, dating from his exile, are chiefly remarkable for their passionate zeal, and for the boldness and violence of the See also:language addressed to the reigning See also:emperor, whom he did not See also:scruple to See also:call the enemy of See also:God and a second See also:Saul, See also:Ahab and See also:Jeroboam. Their titles, in the most probable See also:chronological See also:order, are De non parcendis in Deum delinguentibus, De regibus apostaticis, Ad Constantium Augustum See also:pro Athanasio libri ii., De non conveniendo cum haereticis and Moriendum esse pro Filio Pei.

Their quotations of Scripture are of considerable value to the See also:

critical student of the Latin See also:text before See also:Jerome. They were first collected and edited by Tilius (See also:Paris, 1568) ; the best edition is that of W. Hartel in the See also:Vienna Corpus, Script. Eccl. See also:Lat. (1886). See also G. See also:Kruger, Lucifer Bischof von Cagliari and das Schisma der Luciferianer (See also:Leipzig, 1886) ; F. G. See also:Kenyon, Textual See also:Criticism, pp. 181, 221.

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