Volume 1

A dictionary of Christian antiquities : being a continuation of the 'Dictionary of the Bible' / edited by William Smith and Samuel Cheetham ; illustrated by engravings on wood.

Date:: [between 1890 and 1899?]

Credit: A dictionary of Christian antiquities : being a continuation of the 'Dictionary of the Bible' / edited by William Smith and Samuel Cheetham ; illustrated by engravings on wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$LUBERCUS, martyr of Caesarea in Spain, commemorated April 15 {Hieron. Mart.'). Lu- bertus occurs for this day in the Auctaria of Bede. [C. H.] LUCANIA, martyr in Africa, commemorated Dec. 18 {Hieron. Mart.). [C. H.] LUCANUS (1), African martyr, commemo- rated April 28 (Bede, Mart. Aact.). (2) Bishop of Sabiona, commemorated at Be- lunum July 20 (^Acta SS. Jul. v. 70). [C. H.] LUCAS (1) (St. Luke), evangelist, com- memoi ated generally on Oct. 18. At Jerusalem, March 15 was set apart to him and to St. James the Apostle; at Aquileia, Sept. 3 was observed for the “ ingressio reliquiarum ” of St. Andrew, St. Luke, and St. John ; in the city “ Piralice,” St. Luke’s natalis was kept on Sept. 21 (^Hieron. Mar't.). In the Auctaria of Bede, and in the Ethiopic Calendar, October 19 is assigned to St. Luke. The relics of Sf. Luke, with those of St. Andrew and St. Timothy, are said to have been transferred by order of the emperor Con- stantins to Constantinople, and there deposited in the church of the Apostles [Andrew, p. 82]. (Hieron. cont. Vigilantium; Patrol. Lat. xxiii. 345; Basil. Menol. Oct. 18). St. Luke’s translation was observed “ in Oriente ” on Oct. 18 (^Hieron. Mart.), and his natale on the same day (Usuard, Mart.; Bed. Mart.). His commemoration gene- rally is given under Oct. 18 in Basil, Menol. and Cal. Byzant. See also Boll. Acta SS. Oct. viii. 310. The sacramentary of Gregory (p. 136) has a collect for St. Luke’s natalis, which is assigned to Oct. 18; it prays the Lord for St. Luke’s intercession; but the festival is omitted in some MSS. Krazer (de Liturgiis, 497) states the general belief that St. Mark and St. Luke are not mentioned in the Roman canon in the prayer Commnnicantes because of the uncertainty as to the fact of their martyrdom. Ciampini (de Sacr. Aedif.) does not mention any churches dedicated to St. Luke, but he cites various authors explaining why the vitulus of the Apo- calypse was assigned as the symbol of this evan- gelist (^Vet. Mon. i. 192). [Evangelists in Art, I. 633.] [C. H.] (2) Deacon at Emesa, martyr with bishop Sil- vanus and the reader Mocius: commemorated Feb. 6 (Basil, Menolog.); Jan. 29 {Byzant.). (3) Called “ our father Lucas,” of Sterion in Greece, commemorated with “ our father Par- thenius,” bishop of Lampsacus, on Feb. 7 {Gal. Byzant.). (4) Bishop, martyr of Caesarea in Cappadocia, commemorated March 2 (Bede, Mart. Auct.). (5) Bishop and martyr at Nicomedia, comme- morated March 15 (Bede, Mart. Auct.). (6) Martyr in Africa, commemorated March 20 {Hieron. Mart.). (7) Deacon and martyr at Cordula, commemo- rated April 22 (Usuard. Mart. ; Vet. Rom. Mart. ; Bede, Mart.). The name in Bede is Lucus. (8) Martyr at Milan, commemorated Nov. 27 {Hieron. Ma' t.). (9) Stylite, commemorated Dec. 11 (Taksas, 15), {Cal. Aethiop.). [C. H.] LUCEIA. [Lucia.] LUCELLA (1) Martyr at Nicomedia, com- memorated Feb, 16, Mar. 25 {Hieron. Mart.). (2) Martyr in Africa, commemoi-ated May 7 {Hieron. Mart.). (3) Martyr at Rome, commemorated May 10 {Hieron. Mart.). (4) Martyr, commemorated Aug. 10 {Hieron Mart.) [C. H.] LUCELLUS, martyr in Africa, commemo- rated March 19 {Hieron. Mart.). [C. H.] LUCERNAE. [Lights.] LUCERNARIA, virgin, commemorated July 30 ( Vet. Rom. Mart.). [C. H.] LUCERUS, martyr, Jan. 18 (Aengus), ap- pears as Luricus in the Martt. Hieronn. Perhaps the name should be Glycerus. [E. B. B.] LUCETELLA, martyr, commemorated Mar. 13 {Hieron. Mart.). [C. H.] LUCIA (1) Virgin, commemorated Feb. 1® {Cal. Aethiop.). (2) Virgin, martyr at Thessalonica, com- memorated June 1 {Hieron. Mart.; Boll. Acta SS. June, i. 48). (3) Virgin, martyr at Rome, commemorated June 24 {Hieron. Mart.), and on June 25 {Vet. Mart. Rom.). (4) Virgin, martyr in Campania, commemo- rated July 6 (Basil, Menol.). (5) Noble matron at Rome, martyr, com- memorated with SS. Geminianus and Euphemia on Sept. 16 (Usuard. Mart.; Bed. Mart.; Vet. Rom. Mart.; Boll. Acta SS. Sept. vi. 286). In Gregory’s Sacramentary Sept, 16 is assigned as a festival to Lucia and Geminianus, neither of whom are named in the collect, though Euphemia, who is also separately commemorated on that day, is (Greg. Mag. Lib. Sac. 130). The “ natalis ” (no day being named) of Euphemia, Lucia, and Geminianus, occurs in the Antipho- narium, but their names are not in the collect (Greg. Mag. Lib. Antiph. 710). Basil’s Meno- logy assigns Sept. 17 to Lucia, widow, and Geminianus jointly. (6) [St. Lucy of Anglican Calendar] Virgin, martyr at Syracuse under Diocletian, comme- morated on Dec. 13 {Hieron. Mart.; Bed. Mart.; Usuard. Mart.; Vet. Rom. Mart.; Cal. Byzant.). She is one of those mentioned in the canon (Greg. Mag. Lib. Sac. 4, 290 n.) occurring in connexion with Agatha and Agnes. There is a special service for her day and vigil (day of the month not mentioned) in the Liber Resp>on- salis (842). In the Liber Antiphonarius (654) the festival of “ St. Lucia, virgin,” occurs be- tween the second and third Sundays in Advent, but the collect does not contain her name. (7) Virgin, martyr, commemorated at Antioch Dec. 14 {Hieron. Mart.). [C. H.] LUCIANA (1) Martyr in Africa, commemo- rated Feb. 23 {Hieron. Mart.). (2) Martyr at Constantinople, commemorated May 18 {Hieron. Mart.). (3) Martyr in Lucania, commemorated Oct. 29 {Hieron. Mart.). [C. IL] LUCIANUS (1) Bishop and confessor at 3 Z 2$