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Augustine of Hippo (/ ɔː ˈ ɡ ʌ s t ɪ n / aw-GUST-in, US also / ˈ ɔː ɡ ə s t iː n / AW-gə-steen; [22] Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), [23] also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.
Even if the earthly rule of the Empire was imperiled, it was the City of God that would ultimately triumph. Augustine's focus was Heaven, a theme of many Christian works of Late Antiquity. Despite Christianity's designation as the official religion of the Empire, Augustine declared
Apart from those, Augustine is probably best known for his Confessions, which is a personal account of his earlier life, and for De civitate dei (The City of God, consisting of 22 books), which he wrote to restore the confidence of his fellow Christians, which was badly shaken by the sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410.
Saint Augustine (Pinturicchio) Saint Augustine Altarpiece (Huguet) Saint Augustine and Alypius Receiving Ponticianus; Saint Augustine in His Study (Botticelli, Ognissanti) Saint Augustine in His Study (Botticelli, Uffizi) St. Augustine in His Study (Carpaccio) Saint Augustine's Vision of the Christ-Child by a River; San Pietro di Muralto Altarpiece
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Thagaste was originally a small Numidian village, inhabited by a Berber tribe into which Augustine of Hippo was born in AD 354. His mother Saint Monica was a Christian and his father Patricius (with Roman roots) was at first a pagan who later adopted Christianity. The city was located in the north-eastern highlands of Numidia.
The Saint Augustine of Hippo and Seraphim of Sarov Monastery (Greek: Μονή Αγίων Αυγουστίνου Ιππώνος και Σεραφείμ του Σαρώφ) is a men's communal monastery that belongs to the Holy Metropolis of Phocis and was founded in 1991, by Archimandrite and Elder Nektarios Moulatsiotis, who is still the abbot of the Monastery. [1]
Madonna and Child with St John the Baptist and St Augustine is a c.1494 painting by Perugino of the Madonna and Child enthroned between John the Apostle and Augustine of Hippo. It is in the church of Sant'Agostino in Cremona. It was commissioned in 1493 by the rich Roncadelli family, and the following year he painted it at his Florence studio ...