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===Vincent of Lerins=== A contemporary of Augustine, [[Vincent of Lerins]], wrote in 434 (under the pseudonym Peregrinus) a work known as the ''[[Commonitory|Commonitoria]]'' ("Memoranda"). While insisting that, like the human body, church doctrine develops while truly keeping its identity (sections 54β59, chapter XXIII),<ref>{{cite web|title=A Commonitory for the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith Against the Profane Novelties of All Heresies.|publisher=[[Christian Classics Ethereal Library]]|author=Vincent of Lerins|access-date=5 March 2012|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf211.iii.xxiv.html|author-link=Vincent of Lerins}}</ref> he stated: {{blockquote|In the Catholic Church itself, all possible care must be taken, that we hold that faith which has been believed everywhere, always, by all. For that is truly and in the strictest sense 'catholic,' which, as the name itself and the reason of the thing declare, comprehends all universally. This rule we shall observe if we follow universality, antiquity, consent. We shall follow universality if we confess that one faith to be true, which the whole church throughout the world confesses; antiquity, if we in no wise depart from those interpretations which it is manifest were notoriously held by our holy ancestors and fathers; consent, in like manner, if in antiquity itself we adhere to the consentient definitions and determinations of all, or at the least of almost all priests and doctors.|''A Commonitory for the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith Against the Profane Novelties of All Heresies'', section 6, end of chapter II<ref>{{cite web|title=A Commonitory for the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith Against the Profane Novelties of All Heresies.|publisher=[[Christian Classics Ethereal Library]]|author=Vincent of Lerins|access-date=5 March 2012|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf211.iii.iii.html|author-link=Vincent of Lerins}}</ref>}}
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