Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. IV, 1950 Church Fathers Fathers and ecclesiastical writers up to the end of the 8th century, anonymous works

Cresconio

By Antonio Ferrua

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CRESCONIO. - African Donatist teacher, who undertook to defend the Donatist bishop Petilian against St. Augustine, with a long letter addressed to the latter himself (ca. 402), in which he revealed himself to be a good man of letters and polemicist, but little learned in theology and Sacred Scripture.

St. Augustine replied to him in 406 with the four books Contra Cresconium, in which he has preserved for us in quotations the greater part of his work (PL 43, 445; CSEL, LII). Cf. P. Monceaux, Hist. littéraire de l'Afrique chrétienne, VI, Paris 1922, p. 87, from which Moricca, II, p. 745.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), col. 852.

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Ferrua, Antonio. “Cresconio.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, col. 852. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/cresconio.

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Ferrua, Antonio. “Cresconio.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 852. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/cresconio.

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@incollection{ec4_cresconio,
  author    = {Ferrua, Antonio},
  title     = {Cresconio},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IV},
  pages     = {852},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/cresconio}
}

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