St. Augustine Of Hippo Medal and Necklace

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St. Augustine of Hippo

Saint Augustine, the most illustrious Doctor of the Church of Christ, was born on November 13, 354, at Tagaste, Africa. His father, Patricius, a pagan, was baptized a little before his death; his mother was St. Monica, whose feast is celebrated on May 4th. Augustine had been instructed in the rudiments of Christianity in his early youth but, like the prodigal son, of sixteen had the misfortune to lose his Faith.

When he was 20 returned home to his mother taste and opened a school of grammar and rhetoric. His mother never ceased to pray for his conversion. In 375 Augustine went to Carthage, where he had spent four years pursuing his studies, and opened a school of rhetoric, where he taught for eight years. Disgusted at the disorderly behavior of the students, Augustine resolved to go to Rome. It was while there that he severed relationship with the Manicheans, with whom he had spent nine years. His search for truth finally led him to the One, True, Fold of Christ.

Tolle Lege

Two Latin words: Tolle Lege; Tolle Lege: “Take up and read; Take up and read”, caused him to peruse the Epistles of St. Paul. Opening the book his eyes fell upon the words, “Not in rioting and drunkenness; not in chambering and impurities; not in contention and envy; but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh in its concupiscences”. (Romans 13:13. 14.) He read no further; all the darkness of his previous life was dispelled.

When he was 32, after listening to sermons by St. Ambrose in Milan he was converted and was baptized. He intended to return to Africa with his mother, but she died unexpectedly while they were at Ostia. St. Augustine therefore spent a year in Rome and returned to Tagaste in 388. After distributing his goods to the poor he founded a monastery on one of his former estates, which was the beginning of the great Augustinian Order.

Early in 391, St. Augustine was ordained Priest by Valaerius, and after settling in Hippo was consecrated Bishop in 395. The following year he succeeded Bishop Valerius. On August 28, 430, while the Vandals were besieging his episcopal city, St. Augustine died. For thirty-five years he had been the center of ecclesiastical life in Africa, and the Church’s greatest champion against heresy. Among his ninety-six works are his “Confessions” and the twenty books of “The City of God”; refutations of Manichaeism, Donatism, Pelagianism and other heresies of his time, and those that deal with spirituality, philosophy, history, exegesis and morals. More than 400 of his sermons and 217 of his letters are extant today. St. Augustine was a philosopher and dogmatic theologian, as well as a mystic and a powerful controversialist.
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