Lucifer the Bishop

Lucifer, bishop of Cagliari, was sent by Liberius the bishop, together with Pancratius and Hilary, clergy of the Roman church, to the emperor Constantius as envoys for the faith. When he would not condemn the Nicene faith in the person of Athanasius, he was sent off again, to Palestine. There, with wonderful firmness and readiness to suffer martyrdom, he wrote a book against the emperor Constantius and sent it to him to be read. Not long afterward, in the reign of the emperor Julian, he returned to Cagliari, and he died in the reign of Valentinian. [a]