Pope Lucius I
Lucius I,
pope for eight months (
253-
254), spent a short period of his pontificate in exile. He is referred to in several letters of
Cyprian
(see Epist. Ixviii. 5) as having been in agreement with his predecessor
Pope Cornelius in preferring the milder view on the question as to how the lapsed
penitent should be treated. He is commemorated on
March 4.
from a 1911 encyclopedia