More of Saint Augustine's words survive than those of any other writer of antiquity. Pope John Paul II was once so taken by Gerald Depardieu’s resemblance to Augustine that he asked the French actor to impersonate the saint on a world tour.Īugustine wrote about 230 books and treatises and in addition around 350 of his sermons survive today. As he lay dying, Augustine had the penitential psalms copied on parchment and fixed to the wall of his room so he could read them from bed. Portrait by Philippe de Champaigne, 17th centuryĪugustine's teachings that no one can really love God or believe in him properly until the grace of God comes to them influenced Luther and Calvin.Īugustine died aged 76 on August 28, 430 in Hippo, while the Vandals were besieging his Episcopal city. The great theologian developed many Catholic doctrines helping make infant baptism, belief in purgatory and the teaching that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church normal practice. He confidently asserted that there was "no frivolous jollity" in Paradise.
This insight, which Augustine derived from meditation on the Bible, anticipated Einstein's theory of relativity by 1,500 years.Īugustine is partly to blame for the fallacy that Christians have a problem with fun. He came to see that God had not only created both time and space but had created them simultaneously and interdependently. In Book 11 of Confessions Augustine recorded a startling, brilliant discovery. He later confessed that as a youth, he had the "most wicked sins of evil lusts."
The earliest known portrait of Saint Augustine in a 6th-century fresco, Lateran, RomeĪugustine never married but he had several lovers prior to his conversion to Christianity. If you go by the paintings of Augustine, he was very fair for a North African. He was slim, clean shaven, shaven haired with sharp features. The students in Carthage were prone to cheating the teachers of their fees. Member of the Centre for Applied Health Research Education BSc, BPE (Waterloo) MSc (Western Illinois) PhD (Minnesota) Contact Email: pbishopuwaterloo.ca Research interests My research interests have focused on cervical spine injuries, head protection, injury prevention and the epidemiology of injuries that occur in sport, work environments and when individuals are driving. Saint Augustine (354-430) was born on November 13, 354 in the municipium of Thagaste (now Souk Ahras, Algeria) in Roman Africa.Īugustine admitted in his autobiography Confessions, that as a boy he "told lies to my tutors, my masters and my parents all for the love of games and the craving for stage shows." Young Augustine also stole pears from a neighbor's tree, and the sin troubled him for the rest of his life.Īugustine taught rhetoric at Carthage, and then handed in his notice as he had heard that the students in Rome were better behaved than their loutish counterparts in Paris or Carthage.
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