As _Lucifer_ is honoured by the Church of _Rome_ as a Saint, and his Festival is kept on the 20th of _May_[946], _Baronius_ pretends, that he abandoned his Schism, and returned to the Communion of the Church, before his Death[947]. [Sidenote: _He never returned to the Communion of the Church._] But his Contemporary _Ruffinus_, who probably knew him, assures us, that he died in the Schism, which he had formed[948]. _Jerom_ often speaks of his Schism, but no-where gives us the least Hint of his having ever quitted it; which would have afforded him a strong Argument against the _Luciferians_, and he would not have failed to urge it, in the Book which he wrote to convince them of their Error. That Writer speaks of _Lucifer_, on all Occasions, with the greatest Respect, even in the Book which he writ against his Followers: he owns, that his Intention was pure and upright; that it was not Pride, Thirst after Glory, or a Desire of transmitting his Name to Posterity, but a mistaken Zeal, that led him astray, and made him disapprove what the others approved; he even distinguishes him with the Title of the _Blessed Lucifer_[949]. And hence _Baronius_ concludes, that he returned to the Communion of the Church; for otherwise, says the Annalist[950], St. _Jerom_ had never given him the Title of _Blessed_, or _Saint_. But that he did not return, is manifest, from the Silence of St. _Jerom_ on that Head, and from the Authority of a contemporary Writer quoted above: and hence I may draw a Conclusion far better grounded than that of _Baronius_; _viz._ that St. _Jerom_ excused him on account of his good Intention; and, consequently, that he did not hold the uncharitable Doctrine of the Church of _Rome_, excluding from Salvation all who die out of her Communion, let their Intention be never so good. It is to be observed, that the _Luciferians_ not only excluded from their Communion those who had received the _Arian_ Confession, but all who communicated with them, even after they had anathematized that Confession, and publicly embraced the Faith of _Nice_. [Sidenote: _The Council of_ Alexandria _saves the Church from Ruin_.]