The fourth-century Celtic monk Pelagius was branded a heretic and excommunicated by the Church. The main reason for this is that some of the beliefs he preached were in direct opposition to those of St Augustine. For example, Augustine said that our salvation or otherwise was determined by God long before we were born and that we could do nothing to change that; Pelagius argued that, through the grace of God, we had the free will to do good and in doing so attain salvation. Augustine preached that unbaptised babies went to Hell; Pelagius argued that they went to a place of waiting (which I was taught at school was Limbo).With the Year of Mercy approaching, perhaps Pelagius could be granted a posthumous pardon. I believe that the Church should go even further and canonise him for refusing