“WE have ever had in communion with us Augustine of holy memory for the sake of his life and merits; never has the breath of evil suspicion tarnished his name. We have always kept him in memory as a man of such great learning that my predecessors ranked him with the foremost masters. Unanimously they held him in high esteem, for all loved him and paid him honor.”
~Pope St. Celestine I
“CATHOLICS venerate you as the restorer of the ancient faith, and while they look up to you, the heretics—an even more testimony—detest you.”
~St. Jerome: Letter to St. Augustine (No. 195 among letters of St. Augustine).