Edward Cuthbert Butler

Cuthbert Butler (born Edward Joseph Aloysius Butler; 6 May 1858 – 2 April 1934) was an Irish ecclesiastical historian much of whose career was spent as Benedictine of Downside Abbey in England. He was sometimes referred to as Dom Cuthbert Butler.

Butler is known for ''The Vatican Council: The Story from Inside in Bishop Ullathorne's Letters''. Described by Michael J. G. Pahls as "[t]he standard [English-language] account of the First Vatican Council", the book is based on the correspondence of Bishop William Bernard Ullathorne of Birmingham. Gertrude Himmelfarb describes ''The Vatican Council'' as designed to support papal infallibility.

He also wrote on mysticism. Provided by Wikipedia