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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 105 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LUCIUS , the name of three popes. Lucius I., See also:

pope for eight months (253–254), spent a See also:short See also:period of his pontificate in See also:exile. He is referred to in several letters of See also:Cyprian (see Epist. lxviii. 5) as having been in agreement with his predecessor See also:Cornelius in preferring the milder view on the question as to how the lapsed penitent should be treated. He is commemorated on the 4th of See also:March. (L. D.*) Lucius II. (Gherardo Caccianemici dal Orso), pope from the 12th of March 1144 to the 15th of See also:February 1145, a Bolognese, successively See also:canon at his native See also:city, See also:cardinal See also:priest of Sta Croce in Gerusalemme, treasurer of the See also:Roman See also:Church, papal See also:legate in See also:Germany for See also:Honorius II., See also:chancellor and librarian under See also:Innocent II., was the successor of See also:Celestine II. His stormy pontificate was marked by the erection of a revolutionary See also:republic at See also:Rome which sought to deprive the pope of his temporal See also:power, and by the recognition of papal See also:suzerainty over See also:Portugal. He was succeeded by See also:Eugenius III. His letters are in J. P.

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Migne, See also:Patrol. See also:Lat. vol. 179. A single unreliable writer, See also:Godfrey of See also:Viterbo (in J. M. Watterich, Pontif. Roman. Vitae), is authority for the statement that Lucius II. perished in an See also:attempt to See also:storm the Capitol. See Jaffe-See also:Wattenbach, Regestapontif. Roman. (1885–1888); J. See also:Langen, Geschichte der romischen Kirche von Gregor VII. bis Innocent 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, 1896). Lucius III. (Ubaldo Allucingoli), pope from the 1st of See also:September 1181 to the 25th of See also:November 1185, a native of See also:Lucca and a Cistercian See also:monk, named cardinal-priest of Sta Prassede by Innocent II. and cardinal-See also:bishop of See also:Ostia and See also:Velletri by See also:Adrian IV., succeeded See also:Alexander III. He lived at Rome from November 1181 to March 1182, but dissensions in the city compelled him to pass the See also:remainder of his pontificate in exile, mainly at Velletri, Anagni and See also:Verona. He disputed with the See also:emperor See also:Frederick I. the disposal of the territories of the Countess See also:Matilda. In November 1184 he held a See also:synod at Verona which condemned the Cathari, Paterines, Waldensians and Arnoldists, and anathematized all heretics and their abettors. Lucius died in the midst of preparations for a crusade in See also:answer to appeals of See also:Baldwin IV. of See also:Jerusalem. His successor was See also:Urban III.

His letters are in J. P. Migne, Patrol. Lat. vol. 201. Consult J. M. Watterich, Pontif. Roman. Vitae, vol. 2 (See also:

Leipzig, 1862); and Jaffe-Wattenbach, Regesta Pontif. Roman.

(1885–1888). See J. Langen, Geschichte der romischen Kirche von Gregor VII. bis Innocenz III. (Bonn, 1893); F. Gregorovius, Rome in the Middle Ages, vol. 4, trans. by Mrs G. W. Hamilton (London, 1896) ; P. See also:

Scheffer-Boichorst, " Zu den mathildinischen Schenkungen," in Mittheilungen See also:des osterreichen Instituts (1888). (C. H.

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