![[Saint Lucian of Antioch]](saintl48.jpg "17kb jpg drawing of Saint Lucian, artist unknown; if you have information on this image, please email me; please do not write to ask about the image")
Head of a school of theology in Antioch; one of his students was Arius, founder of Arianism. Friend of Paul of Samosata and other heretics, and may have been excommunited himself at one point, but later came back to full communion.
Noted Scripture scholar, working to insure that copyists made the most exact copies possible, correcting copyist errors by comparing against older texts in the original languages. His edition of the complete Bible, known as the Lucian Recension was used by many churches, and by Saint Jerome during his work on the Vulgate.
Arrested in Nicomedia during the persecution of Diocletian, and spent nine years in prison. Dragged before the emperor as an example, he struggled to his feet and gave a great defense of the faith. He thrown back in the cells, given no food or water for 14 days, then hauled before the tribunal and interrogated; he answered all questions with "I am a Christian." Martyr.
tortured, starved, and run through with a sword in 312 at Nicomedia, Bithynia buried at Drepanum (later renamed Helenopolis)
Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate Catholic Encyclopedia For All The Saints Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson