Why St. Augustine is One of the Greatest Saints EVER
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St. Augustine: the influencer of
St. Augustine: the influencer of influencers
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St. Augustine is without a doubt the single most influential figure in Western Christianity. He’s cited more than any other person in the Church’s dogmatic pronouncements. Even our modern Catechism of the Catholic Church references his name more than anyone else aside from the biblical authors.
A prolific writer and profound thinker, Augustine left behind an immense treasury of writings that goes well beyond his famous Confessions and City of God. Simply stated, he is the peak of patristic achievement.
Many people don’t know that Augustine was a teenage dad. He fathered an illegitimate son when he was only seventeen. And he continued to live with his mistress for the next seventeen years. In fact, one of his more famous lines when he was still resisting the pull of God was “Grant me chastity and continence…but not yet.”
You can imagine the tears that were shed by his mother, St. Monica,
as she prayed for her son’s conversion. Propelled by her constant intercession and the influence of the great St. Ambrose of Milan, Augustine eventually found his way into the Catholic faith. Today he is one our greatest saints and champions.
If you remember, in our previous discussion about typology we quoted a line from Augustine: “The New Testament is concealed in the Old and the Old Testament is revealed in the New.”
But he went further. Augustine also clearly understood there is a unity not just between the two testaments, but also between the Bible and the sacraments. And this relationship wasn’t something incidental, but central to Christianity.
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St. Augustine is without a doubt the single most influential figure in Western Christianity. He’s cited more than any other person in the Church’s dogmatic pronouncements. Even our modern Catechism of the Catholic Church references his name more than anyone else aside from the biblical authors.
A prolific writer and profound thinker, Augustine left behind an immense treasury of writings that goes well beyond his famous Confessions and City of God. Simply stated, he is the peak of patristic achievement.
Many people don’t know that Augustine was a teenage dad. He fathered an illegitimate son when he was only seventeen. And he continued to live with his mistress for the next seventeen years. In fact, one of his more famous lines when he was still resisting the pull of God was “Grant me chastity and continence…but not yet.”
You can imagine the tears that were shed by his mother, St. Monica,
as she prayed for her son’s conversion. Propelled by her constant intercession and the influence of the great St. Ambrose of Milan, Augustine eventually found his way into the Catholic faith. Today he is one our greatest saints and champions.
If you remember, in our previous discussion about typology we quoted a line from Augustine: “The New Testament is concealed in the Old and the Old Testament is revealed in the New.”
But he went further. Augustine also clearly understood there is a unity not just between the two testaments, but also between the Bible and the sacraments. And this relationship wasn’t something incidental, but central to Christianity.
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