Also known as:
French: Célestin II;
Italian: Guido di Città di Castello;
Latin: Coelestinus II
CELESTINE II, Pope. - Guido of Città di Castello was named cardinal deacon of S. Maria in via Lata by Honorius II and transferred by Innocent II to the presbyteral title of S. Marco. After displaying intense activity as legate, in the retinue of his Pontiff and against Anacletus II and in the Curia, he was called to succeed, on 26 Sept. 1143, precisely Innocent for the brief months that still remained to him of life. As a young man, he had been a pupil of Peter Abelard in Paris; as pontiff, he summoned to Rome his old fellow disciple Robert Pullen, who had become a master of Sacred Scripture and of Aristotelian philosophy, elevating him to the cardinalate. He governed the Church amid the turmoil of the popular revolution led by Arnold of Brescia and went to his death (3 March 1144) in the fortified cloister of the Palladium (S. Maria in Pallara), on the Palatine, where a few years earlier the atrocious scene of violence that had inaugurated the pontificate of Gelasius II had taken place.
Bibliography6 worksFor the activity of the cardinal: J. M. Brisius, Die Mitglieder des Kardinalkollegiums v. 1130-81, Berlin 1912, p. 22 ff.; P. F. Palumbo, Lo
BIBL.: For the activity of the cardinal: J. M. Brisius, Die Mitglieder des Kardinalkollegiums v. 1130-81, Berlin 1912, p. 22 ff.; P. F. Palumbo, Lo scisma del MCXXX, Rome 1942 (cf. index: s. v. Guido di S. Maria in via Lata). On the Pontiff: J. M. Watterich, Pontificum Rom. vitae, II, Leipzig 1862, p. 276 ff.; Hefele-Leclercq, V, pp. 760 and 795; F. Gregorovius, St. della città di Roma nel medioevo, II, Rome 1901, pp. 504 ff.; A. Corsetti, L'intervento del popolo nell'elezione di C. II (1143), Velletri 1920; A. Wilmart, in Rev. bendictine, 35 (1923), pp. 98-102.
Palumbo, Pier Fausto. “Celestino II, papa.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 1256. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/celestino-ii-papa-2.
MLA
Palumbo, Pier Fausto. “Celestino II, papa.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1256. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/celestino-ii-papa-2.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec3_celestino_ii_papa_2,
author = {Palumbo, Pier Fausto},
title = {Celestino II, papa},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {1256},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/celestino-ii-papa-2}
}
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