Alessandro Botticelli. St. Augustine. 1480. Fresco. Ognissanti, Florence, Italy.
St. Augustine of Hippo, bishop and Doctor of the Church, the greatest theologian of the Roman Catholic Church. Born in 354 at Tagaste (Algeria) of a pagan father and a Christian mother, St. Monica, he was brought up as a Christian but was not baptized. He studied at the University of Carthage to become a lawyer, but then turned to philosophy. For nine years he was an adept of Manichaeis. He moved to Rome to teach rhetoric, then to Milan, where he met St. Ambrose and came under his influence. Augustine described his long inner conflict in Confessions. Augustine was converted and baptized by St. Ambrose himself in 386-7. He became a priest in 391 and Bishop of Hippo in 395. He left voluminous writings which have probably proved more influencial in the history of thought than any
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