_Lucius_ was no sooner named to succeed _Cornelius_, than he was apprehended, and sent, with many others, into Banishment; for St. _Cyprian_ wrote him a Letter, in the Name of his Collegues, and his own, congratulating him, at the same time, on his Promotion, and his Exile, as appears from St. _Cyprian_’s Second Letter to him[408]; for his First has not reached our Times. _Lucius_ had been but a very short time in Banishment, when he was recalled, to the inexpressible Joy of his Flock, who, it seems, crouded out to meet him[409]. On this Occasion St. _Cyprian_ wrote him a Second Letter, still extant[410], wherein he testifies the Joy with which the News of his Return had been received by him, and his Brethren in _Africa_. [Sidenote: _Returns to_ Rome.] He returned to _Rome_ during the Heat of the Persecution; but what occasioned his Return, we are no-where told. St. _Cyprian_ says, in his Second Letter to him, that he was perhaps recalled to be immolated in the Sight of his Flock, that they might be animated and encouraged by the Example of his Christian Constancy and Resolution[411]; which happened accordingly; for he had not governed Eight whole Months, says _Eusebius_[412], no, nor Six, according to the most probable Opinion, but only Five, and a few Days, when he died a Martyr; for that Title is given him by St. _Cyprian_[413]. [Sidenote: _and dies a Martyr._] He was beheaded, say the Martyrologies; but on this Point the Antients are silent; and his dying in Prison had given him a just Claim to that Title. His Body is supposed to have been discovered intire, in the Church of St. _Cæcilia_ at _Rome_, in 1599. though the Church of _Roskild_, in the Isle of _Zeland_, had long before pretended to his Head[414]. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- STEPHEN, _Twenty-second_ BISHOP _of_ Rome. [Sidenote: Year of Christ 253. _The Bishops of_ Gaul _write to_ Stephen.]