Walter of Saint Victor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Walter of Saint Victor was a mystic philosopher and theologian, and an Augustinian canon of Paris. Nothing is known about Walter except that, in about the year 1175, he was prior of St. Victor's Abbey, Paris; that about the time of the Third Lateran Council he wrote the celebrated polemic, Contra quatuor labyrinthos Franciae; and that he died about the year 1180.