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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Gaudentius
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- ↑ “From a letter of St. Chrysostom (Ep. clxxxiv) to Gaudentius it may be gathered that the two had met at Antioch.” http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06393c.htm
