Augustine of Hippo

Augustine was born at Thagaste in Roman North Africa, now Algeria, to a pagan father and a Christian mother, Monica. A brilliant student, he became a teacher of rhetoric in Carthage, Rome and Milan. For years he followed the Manichaean religion and lived with a woman to whom he was not married, with whom he had a son, Adeodatus. In Milan he heard the sermons of Bishop Ambrose and read Neoplatonist philosophy. In 386, in a garden, he heard a child's voice saying take up and read, opened the letters of Paul, and resolved to become a Christian. Ambrose baptized him at Easter 387. Returning to Africa, he was ordained a priest and in 395 became bishop of Hippo, a port town, where he preached and wrote for over thirty years. His Confessions, a prayer to God telling the story of his life, is often called the first autobiography. After the sack of Rome in 410 he wrote City of God. He died in 430 while the Vandals besieged Hippo.

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Faith: Christian philosopher and bishop of Hippo; a saint of the Catholic Church. Source: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy