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The Commonitory

St. Vincent of Lérins · 434
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How do you tell the true faith from a new error? Vincent's answer is famous: hold to what has been believed everywhere, always and by all.

Written in 434, it is still one of the clearest short books on Holy Tradition.

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About this edition

Translated by C. A. Heurtley, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 11 (1894).

This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.

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