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Born atLucca, unknowndate; died atVerona, 25 Notaember, 1185.Innocent II created himCardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede on 23 February, 1141, and afterwards sent him aslegate toFrance. UnderEugene III he was sent aslegate toSicily and on 1 January, 1159, he becameBishop ofOstia and Velletri. In 1177 he was commissioned byAlexander III to take part in the famous peace congress ofVenice, where an amicable settlement was reached betweenAlexander III andEmperor Frederick I. Hereupon he was appointed a member of the court of arbitration which was instituted to investigate the validity of the donation of Countess Matilda, but which arrived at no definite conclusion. On 1 September, 1181, a day after the death ofAlexander III, he was electedpope atVelletri where he was alsocrowned on the following Sunday, 6 September. In the beginning of November he came toRome, but there the revolutionary party soon became so incensed against him because he refused to grant them certain privileges which his predecessors had granted, that he was compelled to leaveRome in the middle of March, 1182. He went toVelletri where he received the ambassadors whom King William ofScotland had sent to obtainabsolution from the ban which he had incurred underAlexander III. He freed the king from allecclesiastical censures and as a sign of good will sent him theGolden Rose on 17 March, 1183. FromVelletri thepope proceeded to Segni where on 5 September, 1183, hecanonizedSt. Bruno, who had beenbishop of that place. He again returned toRome endeavouring to put an end to the continual intestine dissensions of the Romans, but they made life so unbearable to him that he left the city a second time.
After spending a short time in SouthernItaly Lucius III went to Bologna where heconsecrated thecathedral on 8 July, 1184. The remainder of his pontificate he spent atVerona, where, with the cooperation ofEmperor Frederick I, he convened asynod from October to November, 1184, at which severe measures were taken against the prevalentheresies of those days, especially against theCathari, theWaldenses, and the Arnoldists. At this synod the emperor promised to make preparations for acrusade to the Holy Land. Though the relations between Lucius III andEmperor Frederick I were not openly hostile, still they were always strained. When after the death of Bishop Arnold ofTrier a double election ensued, thepope firmly refused to give hisapprobation to Volkmar, the candidate of the minority, although the emperor had already invested him atConstance. Neither did Lucius III yield to the emperor who demanded that the Germanbishops, unlawfully appointed by theantipopes during the pontificate ofAlexander III, should be reconsecrated and retain theirsees. He also refused to grant Frederick's request to crown his sonHenry IV emperor. On the other hand, Frederick would not acknowledge the validity of the Matildan donations to theHoly See, and did not assist Lucius against the Roman barons. The letters and decrees of Lucius III are printed in P.L., CCI, 1071-1376.
JAFFE, Regesta pontificum Romanorum (Leipzig, 1885-8); Liber Pontificalis, ed. DUCHESNE, II (Paris, 1886-92), 450; WATTERICH, Pontificum Romanorum vitae, II (Leipzig, 1862), 650-62; PIGHI, Centenario di Lucio III e Urbano III in Verona (Verona, 1886); GRISAR in Kirchenlex; SCHEFFER-BOICHORST, Kaiser Friedrichs letzer Streit mit der Kurie (1866); GREGOROVIUS, Gesch. der Stadt Rom im Mittelalter (Stuttgart, 1859-72); VON REUMONT, Gesch. der Stadt Rom (Berlin, 1867-70).
APA citation.Ott, M.(1910).Pope Lucius III. InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09412b.htm
MLA citation.Ott, Michael."Pope Lucius III."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 9.New York: Robert Appleton Company,1910.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09412b.htm>.
Transcription.This article was transcribed for New Advent by Herman F. Holbrook."Prayer was made without ceasing of the Church unto God for Peter." Acts 12.5.
Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, Censor.Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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