Origen & Saint Vincent Of Lerins

Most people have heard of Origen, but who the heck is this  St. Vincent guy? He was a writer in Southern Gaul who entered the monastery of Lérins (today Isle St. Honorat), where under the pseudonym of Peregrinus he wrote his “Commonitorium” (434). Origen of course (185–254) was an Early Christian scholar, theologian, and one of the most distinguished of the early fathers of the Christian Church.  And the point is?

Origen ran into some problems with Demetrius around 230 and fled from Alexandria in 231 He made his permanent home in Caesarea. A series of attacks on him seems to have emanated from Alexandria, whether for his self-castration (a capital crime in Roman law) or for alleged heterodoxy is unknown; but at all events these fulminations were heeded only at Rome,

Origen seemed to think that ALL mankind would eventually be saved. He became what was labeled a “universalist”. That pretty much discredited anything else Origen would do. But decades and centuries later the Catholic church refused to dismiss the inclusivist ideas and men like St. Vincent backed him up.

St. Vincent is credited with saying, “I would rather be wrong and with Origen than right with the world.”

Is there anyone in your life that you’d say that about?