Religious dimensions of Lot49

[CROSBY KEVIN]

A recent post mentioned the religious dimensions of Lot 49, something
I looked into a while back, and found out some swell things about
Dr. Hilarius, the man of 1,000 faces.  St. Hilarius (or St. Hilary) was Pope
after Leo I, and was Leo's emissary to the council at Chalcedon? or Ephesus?
I forget.  Anyway, after barely making it out of the Council alive, he became
Pope, and his two noteworthy acts, according to Butler's and Baring-Gould's
Lives of the Saints, were to 1) write an important letter, and 2) to make
an important ruling regarding the rights of inheritance of bishops.  If I
remember correctly, there was some disagreement over whether a bishop could
name his own successor and pick the inheritor of his own position.  Hilary
said no, in the way that Popes are able.
So we have a saint whose only two recorded acts are exactly those which
are important in Lot49--sending letters and dealing with the inheritance
of an estate.
After reading about St. Hilarius I browsed through the Lives of the Saints
for a while, looking for other characters from TP's work, but didn't come
up with anything.  (The stories of the saints are great fun, so it wasn't
a waste at all.)  

KevinC.