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Vor 4 Tagen · The Conversion of St. Augustine by Fra Angelico. In late August of 386, at the age of 31, having heard of Ponticianus's and his friends' first reading of the life of Anthony of the Desert, Augustine converted to Christianity.
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Vor 2 Tagen · The friendship between Gregory and Augustine had great historical consequences, as it was the Pope who would eventually send his fellow monk to evangelize England. Around 595, five years into his 14-year pontificate, Pope Gregory set to work on a plan for the conversion of the English people. The Catholic faith had already been preached and ...
Vor 3 Tagen · All great confessional literature and all great conversion stories take their lead and their cue from Augustine’s magisterial original. Plus ça change…. This somewhat rambling preamble to Augustine’s Confessions has barely scratched the surface of all that The Confessions has to offer. It has not discussed Augustine’s philosophical and ...
Vor 4 Tagen · St Augustine of Canterbury as St Paul. Augustine’s conversion from a fearful prior who shuddered at the mere account of the atrocities of which the Angles and Saxons were capable, to a proud apostle of the Church of Rome, capable of converting entire regions with his word alone, makes us think of other miraculous conversions.
Vor 4 Tagen · In the 1200s, Jacobus recounted Augustine’s stories about his misspent youth, his baptism by Ambrose, and his many contributions to our understanding of Christian doctrine. Two hundred years later, Caxton’s English translation of The Golden Legend added a story he’d seen depicted on an altar of St. Austin, at the blackfriars in ...
Vor einem Tag · With an array of vibrant characters and thought-provoking commentary on belief, corruption, and hope, Conversion is a hilarious new historical comedy about the unbelievably ‘true’ story of St. Augustine of Canterbury and his seemingly doomed quest to convert the people of Britain to Christianity.
Vor 2 Tagen · Augustine. In his account of his conversion experience, Augustine of Hippo gave his life to Christ after reading Romans 13. Augustine's foundational work on the gospel as a gift (grace), on morality as life in the Spirit, on predestination, and on original sin all derives from Paul, especially Romans. Reformation
