Catholics, is it true that there was a Saint Lucifer who was not in any way related to the devil?

Question

I hust found this excerpt in the wikipedia, and am dying to know more

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucifer

His full name would have been Saint Lucifer Calaritanus

Answer 1

http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/Saint+Lucifer

Lucifer of Cagliari, opponent of Arianism. Pretty much what Wikipedia said; I'm not sure that the information here is any more reliable than Wikipedia information is.

http://experts.about.com/e/s/sa/Saint_Lucifer.htm

Also Lucifer of Cagliari.

I had never heard of Lucifer of Cagliari before embarking on this search. Three websites prove nothing. I do not have a comprehensive book of saints.

Yahoo search: lucifer cagliari

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09410b.htm

"New Advent" (group) online Catholic encyclopedia.

Lucifer Calaritanus, ? - 371. Fought Arian heresy.

Elsewhere on the site, the New Advent group quotes Frank J. Sheed (the author of a book called _Theology and Sanity_; somewhat conservative but not a weirdo). I am embarrassingly ignorant of the New Advent group; I presume they're conservative. I don't think they're one of those retro-Latin groups or one of those groups which would like to roll things back to where they were before the Counter-Reformation. The info on Lucifer C. probably is good, I would say.

Answer 2

Yes. a Mortal being .
The other ST. Lucifer is a fallen Angel . Who was supposed to be this Planets Guardian Angel but became swelled with pride and led a revolt in Heaven believing he could run creation better than God.and lost . Thrown out of Heaven by Gods command along with the others that followed him by ST.Michael. and is now imprisoned on an island awaiting the day of Judgment.

Answer 3

I can find no record of this man being officially declared a saint, and no record of his name on the May 20 feast day Wikipeida claims for him.

He does appear to be a real person, and the name appears to be authentic.

Other names like Lucia, Lucy, Luciano, etc, also share the same root, meaning"light".

Answer 4

Actually St Lucifer is St. Lucifer of Cagliari. Here is the information (see sources).

(LUCIFER CALARITANUS)

A bishop, who must have been born in the early years of the fourth century; died in 371. His birthplace and the circumstances of his youth are unknown. He first appears in ecclesiastical history, in full maturity of strength and abilities, in 354 when he was deputed by Pope Liberius, with the priest Pancratius and the deacon Hilary, to request the Emperor Constantius to convene a council, to deal with the accusations directed against St. Athanasius and his previous condemnation. This council was convened at Milan. Lucifer there defended the Bishop of Alexandria with much passion and in very violent language, thus furnishing the adversaries of the great Alexandrian with a pretext for resentment and further violence, and causing a new condemnation of Athanasius. Constantius, unaccustomed to independence on the part of the bishops, grievously maltreated Lucifer and his colleague, Eusebius of Vercelli. Both were exiled, Lucifer being sent to Germanica, in Syria, and thence to Eleutheropolis in Palestine; he was finally relegated to the Thebaid.

In the course of this exile Lucifer wrote an extremely virulent pamphlet entitled "Ad Constantium Augustum pro sancto Athanasio libri II", an eloquent defence of Catholic orthodoxy, but in such exaggerated language that it overshot the mark and injured the cause it was meant to serve. Lucifer boasted of his work, and Constantius, tyrant that he was, refrained from further revenge. After the death of Constantius, Julian allowed all the exiles to return to their cities. Lucifer went to Antioch, and at once meddled in the dissensions which divided the Catholic party. He prolonged and embittered them by consecrating a bishop who appeared to him capable of continuing the opposition to the bishop and party which he judged the weaker under the circumstances. Incapable of tact, he aggravated the dissenters, instead of dealing cautiously with them in order to win them, and displayed special severity towards those Catholics who had wavered in their adherence to the Nicene Creed. About this time a Council of Alexandria presided over by St. Athanasius decreed that Arians renouncing their heresy should be pardoned and that bishops who, by compulsion, had temporized with heretics should not be disturbed. Against this indulgence Lucifer protested, and went so far as to anathematize his former friend, Eusebius of Vercelli, who carried out the decrees of the Council of Alexandria. Seeing that his extreme opinions won partisans neither West nor East, he withdrew to Sardinia, resumed his see, and formed a small sect called the Luciferians. These sectaries pretended that all priests who had participated in Arianism should be deprived of their dignity, and that bishops who recognized the rights of even repentant heretics should be excommunicated. The Luciferians, being earnestly opposed, commissioned two priests, Marcellinus and Faustinus, to present a petition, the wellknown "Libellus precum", to the Emperor Theodosius, explaining their grievances and claiming protection. The emperor forbade further pursuit of them, and their schism seems not to have lasted beyond this first generation.

Answer 5

Yes

Answer 6

based on wat i read ang wacth movies that related to him, Lucifer is a former angel that sent by God to world of evil, he rejected to heaven coz he wants to control the angels and he wants to have power desame by the God. That's the beginning of devil existence Lucifer is the Prince of darkness and beatin by an angel St. Michael the Arc angel. he is behind the possesion of many people one of those is Emily Rose ( exorcism of emily rose story) i hav read some articles about possession and many of them is Lucifer is the one who posses them. for more clues about him watch the movies Constantine, Emily rose story and silent hill the movie. Lucifer have many names.

Answer 7

I have a Dictionary of Saints, and sorry but that name was not in there!

Answer 8

First and foremost, "wikipedia" is composed by morons, jesters, and liars... so only gullible fools would believe any of it's contents.

Answer 9

That article is very interesting.

Answer 10

dont believe everything you read