Accomplishments of saint augustine
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Augustine of Hippo
1. Life
Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus) lived from 13 November 354 to 28 August 430. He was born in Thagaste in Roman Africa (modern Souk Ahras in Algeria). His mother Monnica (d. 388), a devout Christian, seems to have exerted a deep but not wholly unambiguous influence on his religious development. His father Patricius (d. 372) was baptized on his deathbed. Augustine himself was made a catechumen early in his life. His studies of grammar and rhetoric in the provincial centers of Madauros and Carthage, which strained the financial resources of his middle-class parents, were hoped to pave his way for a future career in the higher imperial administration. In Carthage at the age of ca. 18, he found a mistress with whom he lived in a monogamous union for ca. 14 years and who bore him a son, Adeodatus, who was baptized together with his father in Milan and died a little later (ca. 390) aged 18. Ca. 373 Augustine became a “hearer” (auditor) of Manichei
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Augustine of Hippo is our founder and the father of an extensive Religious Family that follows his Rule, his teachings and his way of life. In these pages we approach his biography, his sensitivity, his way of life and his proposals to men and women of all times.
Augustine, the manichean
When Augustine was nineteen he had a first conversion to Philosophy, whilst he was studying in Carthage, when he read the Hortensius by Cicero. It was a book written to encourage people to embrace a philosophical career and which was put forward to students as much for its literary form as for the proposal which it made towards the reader. Augustine was left amazed by the book, which awoke his dream to search for the truth.
For Augustine this book was an “epístrofe” or intellectual conversion, but did not have the effect of “metanoia” or moral conversion. Once that he heard of the truth in this way he threw himself in search of Jesus Christ, as a consequence of the Christian education h
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Augustine of Hippo
Christian theologian and philosopher (354–430)
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Saint Augustin bygd Philippe dem Champaigne, c. 1645 | |
| Born | Aurelius Augustinus 13 November 354 Thagaste, Numidia Cirtensis, långnovell Empire |
| Died | 28 August 430 (aged 75) Hippo Regius, Numidia Cirtensis, Western långnovell 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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