Vincent of Lérins

Lupus has also been called the brother of Vincent of Lérins.

Vincent of Lérins.

Thus Rusticus entered the monastery of St. Vincent of Lérins.

The Commonitory is a book by Vincent of Lérins which seeks to affirm authentic Christian teaching.

Vincent of Lérins wrote "Quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus".

The Latin tradition consists of three authors writing in the later 4th and early 5th centuries-Jerome, Orosius, and Vincent of Lérins.

Saint Vincent of Lérins (died c. 445) (in Latin, Vincentius) was a Gallic author of early Christian writings.

In 450 Vincent of Lérins asked in his famous Commonitory, Will there be no progress in religion in the Church of Christ?

Its positions are similar to those taken by St. Ambrose of Milan, Augustine of Hippo or Vincent of Lérins.

For that reason, with Vincent of Lérins, we affirm and embrace "that which has been believed everywhere, always, and by all people; it is truly and properly Catholic."

Anthelmi, on the contrary, inclined to the view of Pithou, who attributed it to Vincent of Lérins; and in 1693 he published his Nova de symbolo Athanasiano disquisitio.

As Augustine argues that Cyprian would have rejoined orthodox belief following a general council, Vincent of Lérins wrote on what he considered constituted the teachings of the Catholic Church.

He was educated at Lérins Abbey, first by St. Hilary of Arles, then by Salvianus and St. Vincent of Lérins.

"Commentationes duae ecclesiastico-polemicae" (Verona, 1674), concerning Vincent of Lérins and Hilarius of Arles, against whom H. Norisius wrote his "Adventoria" in Patrologia Latina.

The tradition is represented in Jerome's Liber de viris inlustribus and Chronicon, Orosius' Historiarum Adversum Paganos, and Vincent of Lérins' Commonitorum Primum.

The use of the creed in a sermon by Caesarius of Arles, as well as a theological resemblance to works by Vincent of Lérins, point to Southern Gaul as its origin.

In the chapter on Origen in Vincent of Lérins' Commonitorium primum, Vincent writes: "quos ad Philippum imperatorem, qui primus romanorum principum Christianus fuit, Christiani magisterii acutoritate conscripsit."

J.N.D. Kelly, a contemporary patristics scholar, believes that St. Vincent of Lérins was not its author, but suggests that it may have come from the same bacground, namely the area of Lerins in southern Gaul.

When he comes to define precisely which in doctrines are, and which are not, fundamental, Jurieu bids us fall back on the rule of Vincent of Lérins: Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus.

The 1940 discovery of a lost work by Vincent of Lérins, which bears a striking similarity to much of the language of the Athanasian Creed, have led many to conclude that the creed originated either with Vincent or with his students.

The Church uses this text in its interpretation of dogmatic development: The first Vatican Council stated in 1870 that within the limits of the statement of Vincent of Lérins, dogmatic development is possible, Vatican II confirms this view in Lumen Gentium.