AUGUSTINE

Saint Augustine is one of the most influential figures in all of Christianity, yet his path to sainthood was by no means assured. Bo rn in AD 354 to a pagan father and a Christian mother, Augustine spent the first thirty years of his life struggling to understand t he nature of God and his world. He learned about Christianity as a child but was never baptized, choosing instead to immerse himself in the study of rhetoric, Manicheanism, and then Neoplatonismall the while indulging in a life of lust and greed.In Augustine, the acclaime...[Read more]