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The vision of St. Augustine by Ascanio Luciano. Ambrose baptized Augustine and his son Adeodatus, in Milan on Easter Vigil, 24–25 April 387. [84] A year later, in 388, Augustine completed his apology On the Holiness of the Catholic Church. [20] That year, also, Adeodatus and Augustine returned home to Africa. [60]
Augustine's body was originally buried in the portico of what is now St Augustine's, Canterbury, [36] but it was later exhumed and placed in a tomb within the abbey church, which became a place of pilgrimage and veneration. After the Norman Conquest the cult of St Augustine was actively promoted. [22]
St. Augustine believed that children who died unbaptized were damned. [1] In his Letter to Jerome, he wrote, [2]. Likewise, whosoever says that those children who depart out of this life without partaking of that sacrament shall be made alive in Christ, certainly contradicts the apostolic declaration, and condemns the universal Church, in which it is the practice to lose no time and run in ...
Augustine taught that God foreordained, or predestined, newborn babies who were baptized by actively helping or causing the parents to reach the bishop for baptism while the baby lived. By baptism, these babies would be saved from damnation.
He and Augustine were baptized by Ambrose at the Easter vigil in April 387. [6] After being baptized, he and Augustine returned to Thagaste, where he helped Augustine establish the first monastery in North Africa. When Augustine was made priest of Hippo, Alypius moved there and became a member of the monastic community Augustine founded there.
The Confessions of St. Augustine, transl. Edward Bouverie Pusey, 1909. St. Augustine (1960). The Confessions of St. Augustine. transl., introd. & notes, John K. Ryan. New York: Image Books. ISBN 0-385-02955-1. Maria Boulding, Saint Augustine: The Confessions, Hyde Park NY: New City Press (The Works of Saint Augustine I/1), 2002 ISBN 1-56548154-2
On Baptism, Against the Donatists: 404 [3] In Iohannis evangelium tractatus: Treatises on the Gospel of John: 406–420 [3] In Epistolam Joannis Ad Parthos Tractatus Decem: Homilies on the First Epistle of John: 407 [3] De peccatorum meritis et remissione et de baptismo parvulorum: On Merits and Remission of Sin, and Infant Baptism: 412 [6] De ...
For St Augustine, baptism (including infant baptism) was an ordination into Christ’s royal priesthood. In his exposition of 1 Peter 2:9, he writes ‘we call them all priest insomuch as they are members of the One Priest’.