ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY Saints celebrated on the 20th of May WELCOME! SAINT LUCIFER, BISHOP OF CAGLIARI (Lucifer Calaritanus) [Saint Lucifer was] a bishop who must have been born in the early years of the fourth century; he died in 371. THE COUNCIL OF MILAN His birthplace and the circumstances of his youth are unknown. He first appears in ecclesiastical history, in full maturity of strength and abilities, in 354 when he was deputed by Pope Liberius, with the priest Pancratius and the deacon Hilary, to request the Emperor Constantius to convene a council, to deal with the accusations directed against St Athanasius and his previous condemnation. STRONG LANGUAGE This council was convened at Milan. Lucifer there defended the Bishop of Alexandria with much passion and in very violent language, thus furnishing the adversaries of the great Alexandrian with a pretext for resentment and further violence, and causing a new condemnation of Athanasius. Constantius, una...