5 facts about st. augustine the person
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St. Augustine, Bishop of Hyppo and Doctor of the Church
Augustine’s mother, St. Monica, reared him in the Catholic faith, but he did not follow her example. A lively, witty and exuberant teenager, Augustine undertook the study of rhetoric, giving brilliant performance and showing enormous promise. He loved life and its pleasures, displayed a profound gift for friendship, experienced passionate love, adored the theater, sought fun and entertainment. In Carthage, where he went to study, he fell in love with a girl. Since she was of a lower social class, he took her as his concubine, but did not marry. They had a son, Adeodatus (whose name means “God-given”). Augustine, a father at 19, remained faithful to his common-law wife and took responsibility for the “family” ménage. On reading Cicero's Hortensius, Augustine’s whole way of seeing the world experienced a change. Happiness, Cicero taught him, consists of things that do not perish: wisdom, truth, virtue. Augustine decided to dedicate his whole life to their pursuit.
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Augustine (354-430), an Algerian, was born to a pagan father, Patricius, and a Christian mother, Monica. He was educated in the North African cities of Tagaste, Madaura and Cartago. He entered the Catholic Church though baptism in 387. He was ordained to the priesthood of Hippo in 391 and bishop of the same city in 395. On the 24th of August 410, the soldiers of Alaric entered into the city of Rome by the gates of Salaria and proceeded to sake the city by iron and fire. This calamity inspired Augustine to preach his “Sermon on the fall of Rome” and to write the “City of God”. Two decades later, the army of Genseric laid siege to Hippo where its bishop died in 430.
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Augustine was born on the 13th of November of 354 in Tagaste, a small city of Numidia in Roman Africa. Today, this north African town is called Souk-Ahras. Although Augustine was not baptized as an infant, Monica taught him the basics of the Christian religion. When she realized, however, that her son was separating himself from these counsels as he grew older, she turned to constant
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Augustine of Hippo
Christian theologian and philosopher (354–430)
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Saint Augustine of Hippo | |
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Saint Augustin by Philippe de Champaigne, c. 1645 | |
| Born | Aurelius Augustinus 13 November 354 Thagaste, Numidia Cirtensis, Roman Empire |
| Died | 28 August 430 (aged 75) Hippo Regius, Numidia Cirtensis, Western Roman Empire |
| Resting place | Pavia, Italy |
| Venerated in | All Christian denominations which venerate saints |
| Canonized | Pre-Congregation |
| Major shrine | San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, Pavia, Italy |
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| Attributes | Crozier, mitre, young child, book, small church, flaming or pierced heart[1] |
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| Region | Western philosophy |
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| Notable students | Paul Orosius Prosper of Aquitaine |
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| Source(s):[21] | |
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