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>Catholic-associated
No saint is "catholic-associated", because St. Augustine was not a roman-catholic heretic and even had an Orthodox understanding of the Holy Trinity (this is St. Gregory Palamas' view who liked St. Augustine a lot and often quoted him) which the Romans later misinterpreted because of the language he used to describe it. He also believed in essence-will distinction unlike scholastic philosopers. If he was seen as "tainted", Russian monks would not take his name upon being tonsured.
St. Augustine alone would refute what the modernists say. I personally don't mention him a lot because I have not read much yet besides Confessions.
>Protestant approach remains
If the approach of plainly believing consensus of fathers without allegorizing it away into oblivion is "protestant", then so are many Orthodox priests and bishops (both modern saints, living priests and older saints) in countries with zero or extremely negligible protestant presence. It is like calling St. Gregory Palamas, a post-schism pillar of patristic Orthodoxy a protestant. True protestantism is having a pick-and-choose approach to the fathers and to Holy Scripture, which is precisely what modernism is. It is just another form or protestantism where truth was not preserved and we have to uncover it in the modern age.