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Gualteri Mapes. De nugis curialium distinctiones quinque

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74 GUALTERI MAPES [Distinc. II.<br />

Cumque diu teneretur in vinculis Lucas, retulit ab Alexandre<br />

papa tertio * quidam amicus ejus literas liberationis ejus ad ipsum<br />

in carcerem occulte ad regera missas, quibus nullatenus uti voluit<br />

Lucas, audito quod duodecim denariorum constitissent ut omnes<br />

aliee solent ad bullam, dicens se nolle per simoniam liberari. Ape-<br />

ruit autem sibi Dominus carcerem die Paschfe, dum interesset<br />

rex missse solenni. Intravit igitur Lucas capellam cum multa<br />

omnium admiratione, altarique nudat mantili, cseterisque projectis<br />

ornatibus, coram cruce juxta regem stupidum timidumque sic ait,<br />

" Domine Jhesu, cujus resurrectionem nemo prseter Christianos<br />

asserit in virtute qua surrexisti, si dignum hunc regem tua visitatione<br />

decreveris, verte impium ut non sit, sin autem in manu<br />

forti et dextera Pharaonis ultrice in his quadraginta diebus sen-<br />

tiat in quem transfixit,'^ Et egressus capellam, iterum ab iniquis<br />

executoribus arctiori deputatus est custodise, patienter omnia<br />

ferens, in orationibus et laude Domini vigil et assiduus. Et factum<br />

est ut ante diem quadragesimum rex moriretur impoenitens.<br />

Successit ei frater ejus unicus,t violentia eequalis priori. Hunc<br />

etiam Lucas, datis quadraginta dierum induciis, interfecit spiritu<br />

oris sui in ipsis, puerumque justum hseredem % cum omni solen-<br />

nitate injunxit, cujus pueritiam Lucas cum summa tranquillitate<br />

transegit, at juventutem non eeque. Rex enim factus juvenis<br />

amplectens altiora quam sustinere valeret, re sua deficiente, pos-<br />

sessiones ecclesiasticas dilapidare non horruit. Quem Lucas post<br />

multas lacrimosas amonitiones, obstinatissimae pertinacise videns<br />

flendo subjecit anathemati, et multis pro eo fusis ad Christum<br />

precibus, meruit ei a <strong>De</strong>o gratiam ut bona poenitentia ductus ad<br />

ecclesiam Strigonice properaret, satisfactus pro voto Lucse. Cui<br />

Lucas cum omni clero et populo solenni processit obvius laeti-<br />

* Pope Alexander III. occupied the usurped. He died April 13, 1173.<br />

papal chair from 1159 to 1181. + Bela III. a younger son of Geisa II.<br />

f Stephen, the brother of Ladislas, was who was placed on the throne of Hungary<br />

crowned on the 20th Feb. 1172, and on after the death of bis uncle Stephen. He<br />

the 19th of June following he was defeated died in 1 196.<br />

and driven from the throne which he had

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