[ebb tide]

So now you’re labeling famous Catholic saints to be “protestants”?

Quite a stretch!

[Tell It Right]

In all seriousness, many of us Protestants who are also amateur historians have fond feelings towards the early church before it lost its way. In fact, as recently as the early Protestant reformers (Luther, before him Haas, before him Wycliffe) the RCC had many orders within it that had various ideas. You could call them a kind of mini-denomination within the RCC.

The reformers I just named were part of the Augustinian Order and heavily believed Augustine of Hippo's teachings over the other early church fathers. Thus the reformers' teachings in many ways were Augustine's teachings. (Not all, admittedly, just like nobody in the RCC agrees with all of other early church father teachings).