LIBERATUS, Deacon of Carthage. - Famous for his Breviarium causae Nestorianorum Eutychianorum. In 535 he was a member of an African embassy that went to Pope John II for information; later he was in Constantinople and Alexandria.

On these journeys he gathered the material for his book, with the intention of proving that the condemnation of the Three Chapters by Justinian was a mistake. The book appeared around 560. His sources were the Historia ecclesiastica tripertita of Cassiodorus (perhaps he had received the Historia tripertita from the author himself, as he sends his Breviarium to Cassiodorus; v. P. Courcelle, Les lettres grecques en Occident, Paris 1943, p. 363, n. 1), the Gesta synodalia (acts of the Council of Chalcedon), the ecclesiastical history of Zacharias Rhetor (?), and the letters of the popes. L. is also the first Western witness to the appearance of the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius.

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BIBL.: Editions: PL 68, 969-1052; Acta Concil. Oecumen., ed. S. Schwartz, II, v; Collectio Sangermanensis, Berlin 1936. On the sources: G. Krüger, Monophysitische Streitigkeiten im Zusammenhang mit der Reichspolitik, Jena 1884, pp. 32-37; id., in Schanz, IV, II, p. 383. Studies: E. Schwartz, Kyrillan von Skythopolis (Texte und Untersuchungen, 49, II), Leipzig 1939, p. 404 ff.; A. Siegmund, Die Überlieferung der griech. christl. Literatur in der lateinischen Kirche, Munich 1949, p. 154. On L. and the works of Pseudo-Dionysius: H. Ch. Puech, Libéré et la date de l'apparition des écrits diouysiens, in Annuaire de l'Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes, Section des sciences, 1930-31, pp. 3-30; and the critique of I. Stiglmayr, in Byzantium, 8 (1933), pp. 658-65.

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Liberatus, Deacon of Carthage

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