Editing Pope Cornelius (section)

==Death and letters==
[[File:Legendari di sancti istoriado uulgar, 1497 - (Cornelio papa) - BEIC IE4411197.jpg|thumb|The Martyrdom of Cornelius in the ''[[Golden Legend]]'' (1497)]]

In June 251, [[Emperor Decius|Decius]] was killed in battle with the [[Goths]]; and persecutions resumed under his successor, [[Trebonianus Gallus]]. Cornelius was exiled to [[Centumcellae]], Italy, where he died in June 253. The Liberian catalogue ascribes his death to the hardships of banishment; later sources say he was beheaded. He was [[List of extant papal tombs|entombed in a catacomb near the chapel of the popes]], behind a Latin inscription, not Greek like his predecessor [[Pope Fabian]] and successor [[Lucius I]]. It translates to "Cornelius Martyr". The letters he sent while in exile are all written in the colloquial Latin of the period instead of the classical style used by the educated such as Cyprian, a theologian as well as a bishop, and Novatian, who was also a philosopher.<ref name="CE">{{CathEncy|wstitle=Pope Cornelius|author=Chapman, John}}</ref> This suggests that Cornelius came from a financially average family and thus was given an ordinary education as a child. One letter mentions an office of "[[exorcist]]" in the church for the first time.<ref name="NCR">{{Citation|author=Allen, John L Jr |title=A bit of exorcist history| url=http://natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2000c/090100/090100h.htm|newspaper=[[National Catholic Reporter]]|date=September 1, 2000}}</ref>