The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . ova-tion, was accused of some foreign superstition, andhanded over to her husbands judicial Fol-lowing ancient precedent, he heard his wifes cause inthe presence of kinsfolk, involving, as it did, her legalstatus and character, and he reported that she was in-nocent. This Pomponia lived a lone life of unbrokenmelancholy. After the murder of Julia, Drusussdaughter, by Messalinas treachery, for forty yearsshe wore only the attire of a
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . ova-tion, was accused of some foreign superstition, andhanded over to her husbands judicial Fol-lowing ancient precedent, he heard his wifes cause inthe presence of kinsfolk, involving, as it did, her legalstatus and character, and he reported that she was in-nocent. This Pomponia lived a lone life of unbrokenmelancholy. After the murder of Julia, Drusussdaughter, by Messalinas treachery, for forty yearsshe wore only the attire of a mourner with her heartever sorrowful. For this, during the reign of Claudius, LUCIUS 411 LUCIUS she escaped unpunished, and it was afterwardscounted a glory to her. The foreign superstitionof the Roman historian is now generally regarded asprobably identical with the Christian religion. Whende Rossi first conjectured that this might be thecase, he announced his view merely as a more or lessremote probability, but subsequent discoveries in thecemetery of St. Callistus confirmed his supposition inthe happiest manner. The first of these discoveries. Section of the Crypt of Lucina was the tomb of a Pomponius Grekeinos, evidently amember of the family of Pomponia, and possibly herdescendant; the inscription dates from about the be-ginning of the third century. A short distance fromthis, the tomb of a Pomponius Bassus was also found—another member of the family to which belongedthe mysterious lady of the reign of Claudius. Thus theconversion to Christianity of this noble lady is estab-lished with a degree of probability that approachescertainty. NoRTHcoTE AND BuowNLOw, Roma SoUerranea, I (2nd ed.,London, 1879), 82-3, 279-81; Stokes in Smith and Wage,Diet, Christ, Biog,, IV (London, 1887), s. v. PoTnponia Grcecina, Mauhice M. Hassett. Lucius I, Saint, Pope (253-254); d. at Rome, 5March, 254. After the death of St. Cornelius, whodied in exile in the summer of , Lucius was chosent
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