Confessor , Doctor of the Church , Bishop of Hippo, born Tagaste, Africa , 354 ; died Hippo, 430 . He was the son of Patricius, a pagan , and of Saint Monica , and received a Christian education but, on proceeding to Carthage to study law, he became a slave to immorality and eventually embraced Manichaeism . He went to Italy , 383 , and taught rhetoric at Milan, where he was baptized by Ambrose , 387 . Returning to Tagaste, 388 , he distributed his goods to the poor, and was ordained, 391 . Consecrated assistant Bishop of Hippo, 396 , he introduced religious poverty and community life into his residence, which became a nursery of African monasteries and bishops . For 34 years he wrote and preached against the heresies of the times; becoming renowned as a philosopher, a theologian, and especially as the Doctor of Grace. His writings cover the whole field of theology; his Confessions and the City of God are the best known. His conversion is the classic instance of the efficacy of a mother’s prayer. His description of his last days with Saint Monica , at Ostia, is the most sublime passage in his Confessions. Patron of theologians, brewers, and printers, invoked against sore eyes. Emblems : dove, child , shell, and pen. Relics at Pavia and Hippo. Feast , Roman Calendar, 28 August . See also, patron saints index . <\/p>\n
Augustine of Hippo, Saint Confessor , Doctor of the Church , Bishop of Hippo, born Tagaste, Africa , 354 ; died Hippo, 430 . He was the son of Patricius, a pagan , and of Saint Monica , and received a Christian education but, on proceeding to Carthage to study law, he became a slave … Continue reading “Augustine of Hippo, Saint”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}