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Life of St. Augustine: Bishop of Hippo Doctor of Grace 354-430 AD

St. Augustine was born in 354 AD in Thagaste, North Africa. He was raised by his Christian mother Monica and pagan father Patricius. After studying rhetoric, Augustine became a Manichaean and teacher. In 386 AD after hearing St. Ambrose preach, Augustine converted to Christianity and was baptized in 387 AD. He went on to found monasteries and became Bishop of Hippo in 396 AD, where he wrote many influential theological works until his death in 430 AD.

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Life of St. Augustine: Bishop of Hippo Doctor of Grace 354-430 AD

St. Augustine was born in 354 AD in Thagaste, North Africa. He was raised by his Christian mother Monica and pagan father Patricius. After studying rhetoric, Augustine became a Manichaean and teacher. In 386 AD after hearing St. Ambrose preach, Augustine converted to Christianity and was baptized in 387 AD. He went on to found monasteries and became Bishop of Hippo in 396 AD, where he wrote many influential theological works until his death in 430 AD.

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Life of St.

Augustine
Bishop of Hippo
Doctor of Grace
354-430 AD
Birthday:
November 13, 354 AD
Birthplace:
Thagaste, Numidia, North Africa
Real Name:
Aurelius Augustinus

Father: Patricius - Pagan


Mother: Monica (St. Monica) - xtian
Siblings: 2 Brothers and 1 Sister
(Navigius and Perpetua)
Augustine's schooldays: his parents deliver him to the
schoolmaster
Infancy and Childhood

364 AD - 10 y/o
- Thagaste
- He likes Latin and dislikes
Arithmetic and Greek
In his writings, Augustine accuses himself of often studying
by constraint, not obeying his parents and masters, not
writing, reading, or minding his lessons so much as was
required of him.

And this he did not for lack of intelligence or memory, but


out of love of play.
Infancy and Childhood

They stripped a pear tree of


its fruit "not to eat the fruit
ourselves, but simply to
destroy it."

Here in his own behaviour he


saw an example of sin being
committed simply for the
sake of doing evil.
366 AD - 12 y/o
- Madaura (20 miles south of
Thagaste
- Studied Rhetoric, at that time,
which is fundamental to any
professional career, such as law and
public life.
370 AD - 16 y/o
- returned to Thagaste
- year of idleness

371 AD - 17 y/o
- Carthage
- Romanianus
- long term relationship with a
woman (no name) always associated to
Melania
Adolescent years

372 AD - 18 y/o
- Adeodatus (God-Given) was
born.
- His father died and was baptized
to Christianity at his deathbed.
- He became a “Manichaean”.
- Manichaeism, which is a pseudo-Christian
sect formed by Mani. Followers believe on the God of
good and the God of evil.
Adolescent years

374 AD - 20 y/o
-returned to Thagaste to teach
grammar (needed for the study of
Rhetoric).
376 Ad - 22 y/o
- Returned to Carthage after his best
friend died in Thagaste.
- Opened a school of Rhetoric and
became a teacher for 8 years.
Adolescent years

373 AD - 19 y/o
- He read Hortensius of Cicero.
- It is a philosophical book, which
moved him to abandon his career as a
lawyer in the imperial service.
- “Intellectual conversion”
The Hortensius advised against the pursuit of sensual
pleasure as harmful to the discipline of thinking in a
philosophic manner; however, the sexual drives within
Augustine were then too strong for him to be willing to
separate from his concubine.
383 AD - 29 y/o
-Went to Rome w/ Alypius (former
student) to open a school.
- He deceived his mother so that she
couldn’t follow him.
- Milan – he was asked to be
professor of Rhetoric by Symmachus,
a prefect of the City.
Augustine sets
sail for Rome,
leaving his
mother behind
Augustine the teacher: by position in the cycle, during his
brief stay in Rome
Augustine sets out for Milan from Rome -- the
distinguished gentleman at the far left is clearly meant to
be the 'pagan' orator Symmachus, who secured Augustine
his place at Milan
Augustine arrives at Milan
Adolescent years

384 AD - 30 y/o
- Milan – He was inspired by the
sermons of Bishop Ambrose and became
frequent hearer of the bishop’s
sermons.
385 AD - 31 y/o
- Monica arrived in Milan and
offered Augustine an arranged marriage.
- Augustine was faithful to his
concubine for 14 years until here.
386 AD - 32 y/o
- “Spiritual Conversion”
- “Tolle Lege, Tolle Lege”
- Romans 13:13-14

'Take up and
read'
387 AD - 33 y/o
- “Baptism”
- Fall, April 24
- Augustine, together w/ Alypius
and Adeodatus, was baptized by Bishop
Ambrose in Milan
Augustine is
baptized by
Ambrose (the text
behind his head is
the famous medieval
hymn, 'Te Deum',
which legend
believed had been
by Augustine and
Ambrose, jointly
improvising at just
this moment
387 AD - 33 y/o

- Summer,
- Monica died in Ostia
when they were about to
go back to Thagaste.

- She died at 56 y/o.


Death of Monnica
388 AD - Founded a monastery in
Thagaste.
390 AD - Adeodatus died at 18 y/o
- Nebridius, his friend, also died.
391 AD - He was made a priest on the spot
while looking to build another community in
Hippo.
395 AD - He was made coadjutor
(assistant) bishop of Hippo.
396 AD - 42 y/o
- Bishop Valerius died and he became
the bishop of Hippo

Augustine’s life as a bishop:


1. Drove out in Hippo Donatists
2. Interfering for prisoners to save them from
torture and execution
3. Advocating for the poor
4. Buying freedom for badly treated slaves
5. Charging religious women with the care of
abandoned and orphaned children.
Works

397 AD - The Confessions


- 5 years

399 AD - On the Trinity


- 20 years

413 AD - The City of God


- 13 years

100 books
240 letters
500+ sermons
Augustine and a boy on the seashore at Hippo
Death of Augustine:
August 28, 430 at 76 y/o
Image : The bones of St Augustine are locked in a glass-sided urn and usually kept in
the large marble “arca” situated immediately behind the main altar of the Church of
S. Pietro in Ciel d'Oro, Pavia, On this occasion, the urn has been placed on the altar
table.
Pope Benedict XVI before the bones of St. Augustine in
Pavia
Ruins of the Cathedral of Hippo
Ruins of the
Cathedral of
Hippo
Thank you
for Life of St.
Augustine
listening! Bishop of Hippo
Doctor of Grace
354-430 AD

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