ST. VINCENT OF LERINS (MAY 24TH)
St. Vincent of Lerins By Bp. Joseph ( Ancient Church of the West ) St. Vincent’s Canon Today we celebrate the memory of St. Vincent of Lerins, monastic and scholar, from the Roman colony of Belgia, now in modern day France. He died in the year of the Council of Chalcedon, 451AD, having written apologies against Arianism, Appolonarianism, Nestorianism and the emergence of Monophysitism. He was known for his theological contributions in the new field of canonical interpretation in doctrinal matters, and tried to balance the legalistic mentality of the Roman Church with the philosophical approach of the Greek and Syriac speaking Churches. The “Vincentian Canon” is a famous quote from St. Vincent of Lerins work, thought to have been written against the extremes and ahistorical positions of Augustinianism, called the “Commonitoria” (A Memorandum). This work was written just three years after the Council of Ephesus, the Third Ecumenical Council. The core of St. Vincent’s doctrinal under...
