2. A son of the Lombard Kestitutus and Dareca, a sister of St. Patrick. He lived ii> Ireland from A.D. 439, and died at the age of seventy-live, in 459. Secun- dinus was bishop of Domnach, and composed an ode on St. Patrick during the life of the latter, which was long on the lips of the Irish. It is given in Migne (Putro- liKjie, liii, 838). Immediately after having composed the above ode, he died, thus verifying a prediction of St. Patrick. He was buried at Domnach {Acta Sancto- rum, March 17, p. 523 sq., in the life of St. Patrick). — Wetzer u. Welte, Kirchen-Lex. s. v.
Secundus (the Lat. word Graecized, "SifKovvCoQ), a Christian of Thessalonica, and one of the party who went with the apostle Paul from Corinth as far as Asia {dxpi TijC 'A(T('«t;)> probably to Troas or Miletus (all of them so far, some farther), on his return to Jerusalem from his third missionarj' tour (Acts xx, 4). A.D. 55.
Secundus (heretic). See Secundians.
Securitas, in Roman mythology, was a personifi- cation of security, represented on coins as a quietly gaz- ing matron, with the nether limbs crossed, the left elbow braced against a column, and the right hand placed over the head. She is furnished with a spear, a cornucopia, and an olive or palm branch.
Sedeci'as CEe^iKiar), the Grfecized form of the Hebrew name Zedekiah (q. v.), applied in the Apoc- rypha to two men . 1. A person mentioned (Bar. i, 1) as the father of Maaseiah, himself the grandfather of Ba- ruch, and apparently identical with the false prophet Zedekiah in Jer. xxix, 21,22; 2. The "son of Josiah, king of Judah" (Bar. i, 8), the Zedekiah under whom Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians.
Seder ha-Doroth. See Heilprin, Jeciiiel.
Seder Kodashim. See Misiina.
Seder Moed. See Mishna.
Seder Naslntn. See Mishna.
Seder Nezikin. See JIisiina.
Seder Olatn (Cii" ^'^5^> "■■ '^'^ Succession of the World's History, is an ancient Jewish chronicle, written by R. Jose ben-Chalafta, of Sepphoris, who flourished about A.D. 100-150. In thirty chapters it professes to give the history of Israel up to the time of the author, or rather to the termination of the last Jewish war un- der Bar-cocheba. At the close of the work there are some omissions, which, in part, are compensated by an- other historical work which bears the same title, but, in contradistinction to the Seder Olam, or the Seller Olam Rahba (X31 D5ir ^^•0) — the Major Chronicle, it is designated the Seder Olam Zutta (X:;1T D^ir "inD) = the Minor Chronicle. The best edition of the Seder Olam is that by Meyer (Amsterdam, 1G99), which ap- peared together with the Seder Olam Zutta, a Latin
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translation, ami very elaljorate annotations. See Flirst, Bibl. Judaica, ii, 107 sq. ; Zunz, Gottesdien/stt. ]'urfrdf/e, p. 85, 138 ; Griitz, Gescli. dvr Juden, iv, 63(i sq. ; Etlers- heira, Hist, of the Jewish Nation, p. 263 sq. ; tstcin- sclmeider, Jewish Literulufe, p. 32. (B. P.)
Seder Tohoroth. See Mishna.
Seder Zeraim. See Mishna.
Sedes (Lat. a seat), a term used by the Latin ec- clesiastical writers to denote a bishop's throne, which, with the thrones of liis presbyters on each side of it, were arranged in a semicircle above the altar. Some suppose this to have been so arranged in imitation of the Jewish synagogues, in which, according to Mai- monides, at the up|)er end the law was jilaced in the wall in an arch, and on each side the elders were seated in a semicircle. The bishop's seat was usually covered with some decent material, suitable to the dignity of his office and person. See Bingham, Antiquities of the Christian Church, i, 299.
Sedes Apostolica. See Apostolical.
Sedes Impedita (« hindered see'). An expression by which the canons designate the state of the papal or an episcopal office when its functions are seriously hin- dered or altogether interrupted by the force of difficul- ties from without.
1. The interruption of episcopal functions {sedes epis- copulis impedita) may be occasioned (1) when outward foes (pagans or heretics) have seized the occupant of the chair and hold him prisoner. In this case the chap- ter administers the diocese, either directly or through a vicar, until the will of the ])ope can be ascertained {Sext. c. 3; De Suppl. Nef/l. Pnd. i, 8). (2) When a bishop is removed from his diocese and imprisoned by the gov- ernment of his own country. The chapter must then im- mediately report the circumstance to the papal chair, and until the case is decided the administration will rest in the hands of the vicar-general on the spot (comp. Phil- lips and Giirres, llist.-poiit. Blatter, vol. ii. No. 3, p. 158 sq.). (3) When the bishop has been suspended or ex- communicated, or when physical weakness or mental imbecility untits him for the further exercise of his of- fice. Since in the former case the action emanated di- rectly from the pa[)al chair, and that action operates to destroy the official authority of the vicar-general at the same time {Sext. c. 1 ; I)e Off. Vicar, i, 13), the pope at once makes provision for the temporary government of the diocese. In the latter case an episcopal coadjutor must be appointed.
2. Papal functions are interrupted {sedes apostolica impedita) when the pope is imprisoned and prevented from administering his office, in which case as many cardinals as may be available perform its functions so far as strict necessity requires, or as the provisional di- rections of the pope himself may allow ; or when hostile powers prevent access to the papal chair or render it extremely difficult. In this case the authority of bish- ops within their dioceses is extended to take such pro- visional action as may become necessary, but in har- mony with the current practice of the apostolical chair. — Wetzer u. Welte, Kirchen-Lex. s. v.