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3) Lucifer of Cagliari (d. ca. 371). We know about the anti-Arian bishop
and exile L. chiefly from his own writings and from a brief notice (cap.
95) in St. Jerome's _De viris illustribus_. According to the latter, L.
was already bishop of Cagliari when in 354 pope Liberius sent him as an
envoy to the Arian-inclined emperor Constantius II. That mission lead to
the following year's synod of Milan in which the emperor presented those
participating with a choice: either condemn the anti-Arian St.
Athanasius of Alexandria or go into exile. Along with Sts. Dionysius of
Milan and Eusebius of Vercelli, L. chose the latter course and was
relegated first to Commagene, then to Palestine, and finally to upper
Egypt. L.'s genuine surviving works, all of which are anti-Arian
polemics, date from this period. He was enabled to return by the emperor
Julian's general pardon of 361 and died about a decade later in the
reign of Valentinian I.
> We have no evidence of L.'s having received a cult prior to the early modern period. He entered the RM in its revision of 2001. Remains declared in 1623 to be those of L. repose in this altar in Cagliari's cathedral:
> http://tinyurl.com/268cvx
>
Please allow me to introduce a bit of a problem here. Is it just me, or
is this a particularly weird name for a saint of wealth and taste?
Isn't the devil called Lucifer in the Bible itself? How would a
Christian of that time end up with a name like that? It's sort of like
an American family naming their child Osama, or something, isn't it?
Cheers,
Jim
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