LAWRENCE, Antipope. - After the death of Pope Anastasius I, he was acclaimed pontiff by a part of the clergy and by the majority of the Senate, which sympathized with Byzantium, while his opponents, more numerous, elected the deaconSymmachus (Nov. 22, 498).
Through the intervention of Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, who decided in favor of Pope Symmachus, L. submitted and shortly afterward was named bishop of Nocera in Campania. Threats and promises had perhaps determined him to accept this dignified removal. It is certain that in 501 he returned to schism, seeking to win adherents among his partisans and among the opponents of Pope Symmachus; he was therefore excommunicated by the so-called Synod of the Palms of Oct. 23, 501.
Nevertheless he maintained his position until 505, when, having become the target of an active and literary battle and constrained by King Theodoric, he withdrew to an estate of the patrician Festus, the instigator of the opposition, where he spent the rest of his life amid the austerities of penance. The clergy that had followed him in the schism gradually returned to the obedience of Pope Symmachus; but there were also those who refused to submit to the very end; the stance of the deacon Paschasius is well known. The consequences of the schism were fully overcome with the election of Hormisdas.
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Spätling, Lucchesio. “Lorenzo, antipapa.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, col. 1545. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/lorenzo-antipapa.
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Spätling, Lucchesio. “Lorenzo, antipapa.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1545. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/lorenzo-antipapa.
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author = {Spätling, Lucchesio},
title = {Lorenzo, antipapa},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {VII},
pages = {1545},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1951},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/lorenzo-antipapa}
}
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