LUCIAN, SAINT, a presbyter of Antioch, said to have been b. at Samosata. Left an orphan at the age of 12, he removed to Edessa, where he was baptized, and became a pupil of the eminent biblical scholar, Macarius. Entering the ministry at Antioch, he founded and conducted a theological school. He became greatly celebrated as an ecclesiastic and biblica.1 scholar. In the reign of Diocletian, by order of Maximin, he was arrested in Antioch, transported to Nicomedia, tortured, and put to death in prison. He was buried at Helenopolis, in Bithynia. Ecclesiastical writers mention him as a man of great learning and piety. Eusebius calls him " a person of unblemished charac ter;" and Chrysostom, on the anniversary of his martyrdom, pronounced a panegyric which is still extant. Jerome says that "Lucian was so laborious in the study of the sacred writings that, in his own time, some copies of the Scriptures were known by the name of Liician;" and that his " revision of the Septuagint version of the Old Testament was generally used by the churches frotn Constantinople to Antioch." Jerome
speaks of him as also the author of several epistles and theological tracts. In the eccle siastical history of Socrates is an extant confession of faith drawn up by Lucian. Thc re has been dispute respecting his views of the Trinity, some charging him with Arianism, and even maintaining that he was the founder of Arianism, Arius acknowledging him self as his disciple. Certain it is that he was excluded from the church for heresy by three successive bishops of Antioch. But he was afterwards restored, and was greatly honored for his learning and piety. After his death he was enrolled in the calendar of the church as a saint and martyr.