_Cornelius_ is reckoned, by St. _Jerom_, among the Ecclesiastic Writers, on account of the Four Letters, which he writ to _Fabius_ Bishop of _Antioch_, who seemed not to dislike the Tenets of _Novatian_[N5.1]. He writ several other Letters, whereof Two are still extant among those of St. _Cyprian_[N5.2]; and some Fragments of his Fourth Letter to _Fabius_ have been transmitted to us by _Eusebius_. As for the Letter to _Lupicinus_, Bishop of _Vienne_, which was found in the Archives of that Church, and published by Father _du Bosc_, the Cardinals _Baronius_[N5.3] and _Bona_[N5.4] think it genuine; but it is, without all Doubt, supposititious: for, according to _Ado_ and _Baronius_ himself[N5.5], _Florentius_, whom _Lupicinus_ is supposed to have succeeded, was raised to that See in the Reign of _Maximus_, or _Gordian_, about the Year 240. and held it till the Reign of _Valerian_, and about the Year 258. so that in 252. when _Cornelius_ died, _Lupicinus_ was not yet Bishop. Besides, in the Title of the Letter, which _Baronius_ has suppressed, _Lupicinus_ is styled _Archbishop_; which Title was not known then, nor long after. The Letter is therefore rejected by _Launoy_[N5.6], and Dr. _Pearson_[N5.7], as a forged and spurious Piece. _Erasmus_ ascribes to _Cornelius_ the Treatise on Charity[N5.8]; and _du Pin_ both that, and the other on the public Shews, with the Discourse against _Novatian_[N5.9], which are all to be found among St. _Cyprian_’s Works. Footnote N5.1: Hier. vir. ill. c 66. p. 290. Footnote N5.2: Cypr. ep. 46. 48. Footnote N5.3: Bar. ad ann. 255. n. 47. Footnote N5.4: Bona lit. 1. c. 3. p. 13. Footnote N5.5: Bar. ad ann. 262. n. 58. Footnote N5.6: Laun. Ger. l. 4. c. 6. Footnote N5.7: Pears. Cyp. ann. p. 37. Footnote N5.8: Eras. Cyp. p. 417. Footnote N5.9: Du Pin, t. 1. p. 469. ----- _Cornelius_ died on the same Day of the Month and the Week, on which St. _Cyprian_ was martyred Six Years after[403]; that is, on the 14th of _September_ 252. according to the most probable Opinion, having held the Pontificate one Year, Three Months, and Ten Days. [Sidenote: _His Reliques._] His Body is supposed to have been translated from _Civita-vecchia_ to the Cemetery of _Callistus_; for near that Place Pope _Leo_ I. is said to have built, in Honour of _Cornelius_, a Basilic, or magnificent Church[404]. His Body was believed to be still at _Rome_ in the End of the Eighth Century; for _Anastasius_ tells us, that Pope _Adrian_ placed it in a Church, which he had built in _Capracoro_[405]; but it was soon after removed from thence, and brought into _France_, by _Charlemagne_, as _Pamelius_ assures us, upon the Authority of a small Life of St. _Cyprian_, written, as he supposes, by _Paulus Diaconus_[406][N6]. ----- Footnote N6: