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d.c. 303, feastday: August 21 (Catholic). Martyr of Sardinia, Sicily, Italy, with Camerinus and Cisellus. They were beheaded. Luxorius was a soldier. Camerinus and Cisellus were newly baptized youths.
d.c. 304, feastday: February 12 (Catholic). Martyred deacon of Sardinia. His relics were translated to Benevento, Italy, around 785. He suffered under Emperor Diocletian.
Eusebius Vercellensis, an active champion of orthodoxy during the troubles which agitated the church
in the middle of the fourth century, was a native of Sardinia, passed his early
life as an ecclesiastical reader at Rome, and in A. D. 340 was, by Pope Julius,
ordained bishop of Vercelli, where, although an utter stranger, he in a very brief
space acquired the love and respect of all by the simplicity of his life, and
by the interest Which he manifested in the spiritual welfare of his flock and
his clergy. The latter he was wont to assemble in his house and retain for long
periods, living with them in common, and stimulating them by his example to acts
of devotion and self-denial. This is said to be the first instance upon record
of an attempt to combine the duties of an active priesthood with monastic observances,
and is belived to have led the way to the institution of regular canons, and to
have suggested many of the principles upon which cathedral establishments were
formed and regulated. Eusebius, in A. D. 354, at the request of Liberius, undertook,
in company with Lucifer of Cagliari and the deacon Hilarius, an embassy to Constantius,
by whom the persecution of Athanasius had been sanctioned. In consequence of their
urgent representations the council of Milan was summoned the following year, where
Eusebius pleaded the cause of the true faith with so much freedom and energy,
that the Arian emperor, we are told, in a transport of rage drew his sword upon
the orator, whom he banished on the spot to Scythopolis, a city in the Decapolis
of Syria. From thence he was transported into Cappadocia, and afterwards to the
Thebaid, where he remained until restored to liberty by the edict of Julian, published
in A. D. 362, pronouncing the recall of the exiled prelates. Repairing to Alexandria,
in compliance with the request of Athanasius, he was present at the great council
(of 362), and his name is appended to the proceedings, being the only signature
expressed in Latin characters. From Alexandria, Eusebius proceeded to Antioch,
where he attempted in vain to heal the dissensions excited by the election of
Paulinus; and after visiting many churches in the East, returned at length to
his own diocese, where he died, according to St. Jerome, in A. D. 370.
We possess three Epistolae of this father:
1. Ad Constantium Augustum.
2. Ad presbyteros et plebes Italiae, written on the occasion of his banishment,
to which is attached Libellus facti, a sort of protest against the violent conduct
of the Arian bishop Patrophilus, who was in some sort his jailor during his residence
at Scythopolis.
3. Ad Gregorium Episc. Hisp., found among the fragments of Hilarius (xi. § 5).
He executed also a translation of the commentary drawn up by his namesake, Eusebius
of Caesareia, on the Psalms; and an edition of the Evangelists, from a copy said
to be transcribed by his own hand, preserved at Vercelli, was published at Milan,
1748, by J. A. Irico.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Dec 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Hilarius, surnamed Diaconus, a native of Sardinia, a deacon of the church at Rome in the
middle of the fourth century, and hence designated Hilarius Diaconus, to distinguish
him from others of the same name, was deputed by Pope Liberius, along with Lucifer
of Cagliari, Eusebius of Vercclli, and Pancratius, to plead the cause of the orthodox
faith before Constantius at the council of Milan. Upon this occasion he defended
the principles of Athanasius with so much offensive boldness, that he was scourged
by order of the emperor, and condemned to banishment, along with his companions.
Of his subsequent history we know little, except that he adopted the violent opinions
of Lucifer to their full extent, maintaining that not only Arians, but all who
had held any intercourse with them, as well as heretics of every description,
must, even after an acknowledgment of error, be re-baptized before they could
be admitted into the communion of the Catholic church, and from this doctrine
he was sarcastically styled by Jerome a second Deucalion.
Two treatises are sometimes ascribed to this Hilarius, both of very
doubtful authenticity. One of these, Commentarius in Epistolas Pauli, has frequently
been published along with the writings of Ambrosius; the other, Quaestiones Veteris
et Novi Testamenti, among the works of Augustin.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Jan 2006 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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