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inflicted certain material privations on the cardinals if the election was too long delayed, waS suspended in 1276 by Adrian V, and a few months later revoked by John XXI, but was re-established later in many of its articles, and is even yet the basis of legislation on the conclaves. Lastly, the Council of Lyons dealt with the vacancy of the imperial throne. James I of Aragon pretended to it; Gregory X removed him and on 6 June Rudolph I was proclaimed King of the Romans and future emperor. Such was the work of the coimcil during which died the two greatest doctors of the Middle Aces. St. Thomas Aquinas, summoned by the pope, died at Frosinone (7 March, 1274) on his wajr to Lyons. St. Bonaventure, after important interviews at the Council with the Greek ambassadors, died 15 Jul^r, at Lyons, and was praised by Peter of Tarentaise, the future Innocent V, in a touching funeral sermon.

Martin. BuUaire et ConeUet de Lyon (Lyon, 1906) (excellent) ; Mansi. CoU. Conciliorum, XXIII, 606-82, XXIV, 37-136; HBrsLB, HxHory of Christian Councils, tr. Clark: Havbt, Biblioth^que de VEcoU des Charles, XLVI. 1885, 233-60; Bxr- OSH, Riffisitres d*InnocerU /K (in oounie of publication); Gux- BAUD AND Cadisr, BSffi^Tss de Grigoire X d, Jean XX J (in ooune of pubUcation).

Georqes Gotau.

Lyrba, a titular see of Pamphylia Prima, known by its coins and the mention made of it by Dionysius, Berieg. 868, Ptolemy, V, 5, 8, and Hierocles. Its exact situation is not known, nor its histor]^ ; it may be the modern small town of Seidi Shehir. in the vilayet of Konia. The " Notitise episcopatuum mentions Lyrba as an episcopal see, suffragan of Side up to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Two of its bishops are known: Caius, who attended the Council of Constan- tinople, 381, and Taurianus at Ephesus, 431 (Le Quieh, "Onens christianus ", I, 1009); Zeuxius was not Bishop of Lyrba, as Le Quien states, but of Syedra.

S. PfemiDES.

Lsrsias, a titular see of Phrygia Salutaris, men- tioned by Strabo, XII, 576, Pliny, V, 29^ Ptolemy, V, 2, 23, Hierocles, and the "Notitiae episcopatuum", probably founded by Antiochus the Great about 200 B. c. Some of its coins are still extant. Ramsay (Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia, 754) traces its

original site from still existing ruins between the villages of Oinan and Aresli in the plain of Oinan, a little north-east of Lake Egerdir, m the vilayet of Konia. Lequien (Oiiens christianus, I, 845) names three bishops of Lysias suffragans of Synnada: The- agenes, present at the Council of Sardica, 344; Philip, at Chalcedon 451; and Constantine, at Constanti- nqple, 879. S. PirrRioKS.

I^yster, John. See Achonbt, Diocese of.

Lystra, a titular see in the Province of Lvcaonia, suffragan of Iconium. On his first visit to this town St. Paul healed a lame man, upon which the populace, filled with enthiffiiasm, wished to offer sacrifice to him and to Barnabas, whom they mistook respectively for Jupiter and Mercury. The two Apostles restrained them with difficulty. These same people, stirred up by Jews from Iconium, afterwards stoned St. P&ul (Acts, xiv, 6-19: II Tim., iii, 11). On at least two other occasions the Apostle returned to this city (Acts, xiv, 20; xvi, 1-3), established there a Christian com- munity, and converted his future disciple Timothy, the son of a Jewish mother and a pagan father. The Jews were imdoubtedly numerous, though they had no s3magogue. Pliny (Historia Naturalis, V, 42), places Lystra in Galatia, Ptolemy (V, 4) locates it in Isauria, and the Acts of the Apostles in Lycaonia. The Viilgate (Acts, xxvii, 5) also mentions it, but the reference is really to Myra in Lycia. Some coins have beesi found there belonging to a Roman colony foimded by Augustus at Lystra "Colonia Julia Felix Gemina Lystra''. The exact site of the town has been discovered at Khatum Ser&I, twelve miles south of Iconium; it is marked by some ruins on a hill about one mile north of the modern village. Lequien. (Oriens Christ., I, 1073-76) mentions five bishops of Ljrstra between the fourth and the ninth centuries, one of whom, Eubulus, about 630 refuted Athanasius, the Jacobite Patriarch of Antioch.

Stbrrbt, The Wolfe Expedition to Asia Minor fBoeton, 1888), 142, 219; Lbakb, Jovamal of a Tour in Asia Minor (London, 1824), 101, 103; Ramsat, The Church in the Roman Empire (London. 1894), 47-54; Idem, St. Paul the Travdler, and the Roman Citizen (London, 1895), 114-9; Blass, Ada Apostolorwn (GOttingen, 1895), 159-61; Bkusubr in Vxo., Diet, de la Bible, 8. V. Ljjletre,

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