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Birthday:

November 13, 354 AD


Birthplace:
Thagaste, Numidia, North Africa
Real Name:
Aurelius Augustinus
Father: Patricius - Pagan
Mother: Monica - Christian
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.
Augustine's schooldays: his parents deliver him to
the schoolmaster

371 AD - 17 y/o
- Carthage to study
- long term relationship with
a woman
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
383 AD - 29 y/o
-Went to Rome w/ Alypius
(former student) to open a
school.
- Milan he took up teaching.

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
384 AD - 30 y/o
- Milan He was inspired by
the sermons of Bishop
Ambrose and became
frequent hearer of the bishops
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.

Adolescent years
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

Augustines 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.
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
Works
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
Philosophy
The Two Cities
City of God
-those who love
God
City of the World
-those who love
themselves and the world
City of God and City of the world were not
identical with the church and the state.
Those who love the world are found both in
the state and the church.
Those who love God are found in both the
state and the church.

History
History has a meaning
There is a pattern in the events of man
Human history is the greatest drama of all
and its author is God
Creation Fall of man Incarnation of
God in Christ conflict between City of God
and City of the World (present)
Sexuality
The evil of sexual immorality was not in the
sexual act itself, but rather in the emotions
that typically accompany it.
Equated sex with original sin, identifying
Augustine as a source of Western society's
negative attitudes about sexuality.
He equated flesh with woman and
spirit with man.
Rule of St. Augustine:
Safeguarding Chastity, and Fraternal
Correction.
Justice
Justice is not limited merely to the
relations between man and man; the
primary relations in justice is between
man and God.

For a person to be just (or, more
correctly, to pursue justice), he or she
must deny the love of self that is part of
human nature, and actively draw
towards a love of God.

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