Patristic A.D. 735
“Or the dogma of Novatus is crushedb, who endeavouring to do away with the purifying of the penitent, denies that the mother Church, weeping for the spiritual extinction of her sons, ought to be consoled by the hope of their restoration to life.”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of Luke, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Luke 7:11-17
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1843) ↗