LUCIUS, the name of three popes.
Lucius I., pope for eight months (253-254), spent a short period of his pontificate in exile. He is referred to in several letters of Cyprian (see Epist. lxviii. 5) as agreeing with his predecessor Cornelius in preferring the milder treatment of the lapsed penitent. He is commemorated on March 4. (L. D.) Lucius II. (Gherardo Caccianemici dal Orso), pope from March 12,1144, to Feb. i 5, 1145, a Bolognese, successively canon at his native city, cardinal priest of Sta Croce in Gerusalemme, treasurer of the Roman Church, papal legate in Germany for Honorius II., chancellor and librarian under Innocent II., was the successor of Celestine II. His stormy pontificate was marked by the erection of a revolutionary republic at Rome which sought to deprive the pope of his temporal power, and by the recognition of papal suzerainty over Portugal. Me was succeeded by Eugenius III.
J. P. Migne, Patrol. Lat. vol. 179. A single unreliable writer, Godfrey of Viterbo (in J. M. Watterich, Pontif. Roman. Vitae), is authority for the statement that Lucius II. perished in an attempt to storm the Capitol. See Jaffe-Wattenbach, Regesta pontif. Roman. (1885-88) ; J . Langen, Geschichte der romischen Kirche von Gregor VII. bis Innocenz ill. (Bonn, 1893) ; F. Gregorovius, Rome in the Middle Ages, vol. 4, trans. by Mrs. G. W. Hamilton (1896).
III. (Ubaldo Allucingoli), pope from Sept. 1, 1181, to Nov. 25, 1185, a native of Lucca and a Cistercian monk, named cardinal-priest of Sta Prassede by Innocent II. and cardinal bishop of Ostia and Velletri by Adrian IV., succeeded Alex ander III. He lived at Rome from Nov. 1181 to March 1182, but dissensions in the city compelled him to pass the remainder of his pontificate in exile, mainly at Velletri, Anagni and Verona. He disputed with the emperor Frederick I. the disposal of the territories of the Countess Matilda. In Nov. 1184 he held a synod at Verona which condemned the Cathari, Paterines, Walden sians and Arnoldists, and anathematized all heretics and their abettors. Lucius died in the midst of preparations for a crusade in answer to appeals of Baldwin IV. of Jerusalem. His successor was Urban III.
His letters are in J. P. Migne, Patrol. Lat. vol. 201. Consult J. M. Watterich, Pontif. Roman. Vitae, vol. 2 (Leipzig, 1862) ; and Jaffe Wattenbach, Regesta Pontif. Roman. (1885-88). See J. Langen, Geschichte der romischen Kirche von Gregor VII. bis Innocenz III.
P. Scheffer-Boichorst, "Zu den mathildinischen Schen kungen," in Mittheilungen des osterreichen Instituts (1888).
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