Saint Augustine of Hippo was born in 354 in Tagaste, Algeria to a Christian mother and pagan father. As a young man, he enjoyed worldly pleasures but was later converted to Christianity after hearing a voice tell him to "take up and read" from the Bible. He was baptized in 387 and went on to become a monk, priest, and bishop who wrote extensively and sought to combat heresy. Augustine believed that true happiness can only be found in God and that grace is the most important aspect of the Christian faith.

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Saint
Augustine
Saint Augustine of Hippo
The theologian

2. + • Born in 354
• Born in Tagaste, Algeria
Early life • His parents were Patricius
and Monica.
• His mother was a devout
Christian.
• His father was a pagan.

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Location of Algeria
 Algeria is on the continent of
Africa.

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Early adulthood – pre conversion
 Enjoyed the company of
women.
 Worked in the Roman Imperial
Court.
 Lived in Milan, Italy.

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Conversion
• His mother urged him to be
baptised.
• Began to study under Saint
Ambrose.
• Became fascinated by
intellectual nature of faith.
• Was not baptised, at
first, because he didn’t
want to give up life of sin.

6. +  Augustine received a message from
God. His conversion came when he
heard a child singing, "Take up and
read!" Thinking that God intended him to
hear those words, he picked up the book
Augustine’s conversion of the Letters of St. Paul, and read the
to Christianity. first passage his gaze fell on.
 In 387 he was baptised by Ambrose and
moved back to Africa to become a monk.
 In 391 he was ordained a priest.
 He believed the grace of Christ was the
most important thing.
 In 395 he was ordained a bishop.
 He wrote “Confessions” as the ultimate
hymn for God.

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Saint Augustine’s words.
“You have made
us for
yourself, and our
hearts are
restless until they
rest in you.”
Saint Augustine
“Confessions”.

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His legacy.
 He believed humans cannot
experience true happiness until
they find God.
 His work centred around the
notion that everything in the
world is basically good.
 He wrote many works over his
lifetime.
 He attempted to dispel heresy
and blasphemous ideologies.

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Youtube clip
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NWHosjIVxk

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Bibliography.
 Ellsbery,
Robert. All  A Calendar of Saints –
Saints-Daily The Lives of the
Reflecyions on Principal Saints of the
Saints, Prophets and Christian Year. Orbis
Witnesses for our Time. Book Publishing
Crossroad Publishing Corporation Limited.
Company. New York. London. 1986
1997