![]() ![]() He returned to Africa and spent three years with friends on his family’s estate. ![]() ![]() Ambrose, who baptized Augustine and Adeodatus on the following Easter.įrom this time Augustine lived as an ascetic. He came under the influence of the city’s great bishop, St. His religion at this time was Manichaeism, which combined Christianity with Zoroastrian elements.īy 386 Augustine was teaching in Milan, where his mother joined him. Then he went to Rome, taking with him his mistress and his son, Adeodatus. He also confessed to immoral behavior at the University of Carthage, where he was sent at the age of 16.Īugustine remained in Carthage, teaching rhetoric, until he was 29. ![]() This sin troubled him for the rest of his life. In his Confessions Augustine wrote seven chapters about an incident in his early life-stealing pears from a neighbor’s tree. His father, Patricius, a wealthy landowner, was a pagan. Monica, was a devout Christian, he was not baptized in infancy. 13, 354, at Tagaste in the Roman province of Numidia (now Souk-Ahras in Algeria). Considered the greatest of the Fathers of the Church in the West, he helped form Christian theology ( see Fathers of the Church).Īugustine was born Aurelius Augustinus on Nov. Augustine lived during the decline of Roman civilization on that continent. The bishop of Hippo in Roman Africa for 35 years, St. ![]()
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