Word: cassian
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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After the Bible. Some of Butler's saints have been eliminated by modern scholarship, shortage of facts or plain obscurity (there is no all-inclusive calendar of Catholic saints). Notable among the additions is St. John Cassian. 5th century patriarch of monasticism, whose work was rated by St. Benedict as, after the Bible, the most suitable reading for Benedictine monks. Butler banned him. presumably for his leanings toward semi-Pelagianism (heretical insistence on man's perfectibility without God's help), but Attwater prefers to call him "anti-Augustinian." Other newcomers are those canonized since Butler...
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