Today's Saint (August 28): Augustine of Hippo

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Augustine was born in 354 in northern Africa. During his time as a teacher of rhetoric, he was caught up in the Manichean heresy and began to live a lascivious and immoral life.

Thanks to the intercessory prayers of his mother, Monica, along with the godly guidance of Saint Ambrose, Augustine freed himself from these bonds and converted to Christianity.

He was baptized in 407. Shortly after, he was ordained priest, and later he was made bishop of Hippo. His biographical work Confessions, which explains his spiritual struggles, has been instrumental in bringing others to Christ. Because of this and of his other great works, he was made one of the four great Doctors of the Western Church.

"The mouth of the righteous is exercised in wisdom: and his tongue will be talking of judgment." (The day's Gradual, page E 109, The People's Anglican Missal)

Catholic Encyclopedia article
The day's propers

Books Worth Considering
The Confessions
The City of God
On Free Choice of the Will
The Enchiridion on Faith, Hope and Love
On Christian Teaching
Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (Oxford Paperback Reference)
The Penguin Dictionary of Saints: Third Edition (Dictionary, Penguin)

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