St Athanasius, whose feastday it is, on Our Lady, whose month it is.

WHEN Arianism broke out, it was Athanasius and the Egyptians who were "faithful found among the faithless;" even the Infallible See ... [was] not happy in the man who filled it. Liberius ... anathematized Athanasius on a point on which Athanasius was right and Liberius was {188} wrong. Cardinal Newman The whole world groaned and was amazed to find itself Arian St Jerome Athanasius contra Mundum- one solitary bishop.

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