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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$LUPERCIUS or LUPERCULUS, martyr at Klusa (Eause), commemorated Jane ‘28 (ActaSS. June, v. 351). [0. H.] ^ LUPERCLIS, one of the eighteen martyrs of Saragossa, ocmmemorated April 16. (Osuard. Mart.) [C. H.] LUPIANUS, confessor, commemorated July 1 (Acta SS. July, i. 32). ’ [C. H.] LUPIClNUS(l) Bishop of Lyon, commemo- rated Feb. 3 {llieron. Mart.; Acta SS. Feb. i. 360). (2) i\Iartyr, it is not said where, commemora- ted ilarch 3 (^Hieron. Mart.). (3) Abbat, martyr, in the territory of Lyon, commemorated March 21 (Osuard. Mart.-., Acta SS. Mar. iii. 262). (4) Martyr, at Home, commemorated April 12 (^I/icron. Mart). (5) Martyr in Lydia, commemorated April 27. (6) Hermit and confessor in Gaul, commemo- rated June 2+ (Greg. Tur. ^'it. Pat. caji. 13, Patrol. Lat. L\.\i. 1061; Ada SS. Jun. iv. 817). (7) Bishop, martyr at Vienne {Micron. Mart.; Bed. Mart. Axict.) [C.- H.] LUPRANPODUS, martyr in Cappadocia, commemorated Oct. 14 {IJieron. Mart.). [C. H.] LUPUS (1) Bishop of Chalons-sur-Marne commemorated Jan. 27 {Acta SS. Jan. ii. 776). (2) Martyr at Militana in Armenia, com- memorated May 2 {Ilicron. Mart.) (3) Bishop of Limousin, commemorated May 22 {Acta SS. May, v. 171). (4) IMartyr at Rome, commemorated ^May 31 {Hieron. Mart.) (5) Martyr at Thessalonica, commemorated June 1 {Hieron. Mart.). (6) Bishop of Troyes and confessor, his depositio rommemorated at Troyes July 29 {Hieron. l^art.; Usuard. Mat't. ; Bed. Mart.; Acta SS. uly, vii. 51). (7) Bishop and confessor at Sens, commemo- ated Sept. 1 (Usuard. Mart.; Bed. Mart. Aact. ; Acta SS. Sept. i. 248). (8) Bishop and confessor, his depositio com- memorated at L3'on Sept. 24 {Hieron. Mart.). Usuai-d calls him bishop and anchoret, and places him under Sept. 25 ; as also Acta SS. Sept. vii. 81. (9) Martyr with Aurelia at Cordova, com- memorated Oct. 14 {Hieron. Mart. ; Bed. Mart. Auct.-., Acta SS. Oct. vi. 476). (10) Bishop of Angers, confessor, commemo- rated Oct. 17 {Acta SS.Oct. viii. 104). ,(11) Bishop of Soissons, commemorated Oct. 19 {Acta SS. Oct. viii. 448). [C. H.] I.URICUS V. LUCERUS. LUSOR, jmuth at Bourges, confessor, his depositio commemorated Nov. 4. {Hieron. Mart. ; Bed. Mart. And.) [C. H.] LUSTRALIS COLLATIO (so called because it was paid at the end of every lustrum; also Xpncrdpyvpov, chrysargi/rum, because the pay- ment was made in gold and silver coins). A trading or licence tax, exacted from all who carried on any kind of trade. The inferior clergy were at first exempted from it. (See Immunitihs and Privilkgks of the Clergy, sect. ii. par. 3.) [S. J. E.] IvUTICIANUS, martyr at Antioch, com- memorated Dec. 9 {Hieron. Mart.) [C. H.] LUTRUDIS (Lutrude, Lintrude), virgin in Gaul, commemorated Sept. 22 {Acta SS. Sept. vi. 451). [C. H.] LUXURIES, mai-tyr in Sardinia, commemo- rated Aug. 21; presumably the same as Luxurus, martyr in Sardinia, Sept. 26 ; both in Hieron. Mart. He is called Luxorius, and assigned to Aug. 21, in Acta SS. Aug. iv. 414. [C. H.] LUXURUS or LUXURIES, martyr in Sar- dinia placed under Aug. 21 and Sept. 26. [C. H.] LUXURY {Luxuria). The original signifi- cation of the word luxuria was that of an over- flow or excess of fertility in crops or fields; thence it had the meaning of wantonness and of luxury generally: in mediaeval ecclesiast cal Latin it expre.sses sins of uncleanness, “luxuriae concubinaticae, luxuriosos vel adulteros luxu- riam explere cum consanguinea sua.” (See Du- cange, s. v.) 'Ihe church from the very first assumed an attitude of antagonism to luxury in every form. Simple and comely dress, plain food, an active, not an idle life, an 1 a disregard of riches, were the outward marks of a Christian profession; and the circumstances of the early Christians were obviously such as to restrain any tendency to self-indulgence. So soon, however, as the church obtained any toleration in the empire and wealthy members joined her ranks, the case was altered. Even as early as the 2nd centui y Tertullian has frequent denunciations against intemperate ‘‘voluptates.” He will not allow the public shows to be freque ted by Christians. “ The state of faith,” he declares {de Syectac. c. 1), “ the argument of truth and the rule of discipline bar the servants of God from the pleasures of the public shows.” The outrageous immodesty of the theatre, no less than the con- tagion of idolatry in the whole apparatus of the shows, was held to render them inconsistent with the renouncements which were made at bap- tism. (For the words of renunciation, see Bap- tism, 1. 160; Renunciation.) What the church opposed was not festivity in itself, but the vice in.separable from the exhibition of the public plays. Cyprian, for example, writing to Donatus (c. 7), inveighs with severity against the shows; yet he dates his own treatise on the feast of the vintage {ad Donat, c. 1), which he implies that he was himself observing. An instance of the corruption which then preA'ailed in theatri- cal representations appears from the play which was called Maiuma, part of which consisted in the exhibition of naked Avomen swimming in Avater. This disgraceful display Avas the subject of no less than eight imperial laAVS, and Avas not finally prohibited till the time of Arcadius {Cod mod. XV. vi. 2).$