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Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo. Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is an autobiographical work by Augustine of Hippo, consisting of 13 books written in Latin between AD 397 and 400. [1]
Some Anglican and Lutheran churches celebrate the Feast of the Confession of St. Peter on 18 January. [8] The Confession of Peter is the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, actually an octave rather than a week, and was originally known as the Octave of Christian Unity. It is an international Christian ecumenical observance ...
Augustine of Hippo, also known as Saint Augustine or Saint Austin, [38] is known by various cognomens throughout the many denominations of the Christian world, including Blessed Augustine and the Doctor of Grace [20] (Latin: Doctor gratiae). Hippo Regius, where Augustine was the bishop, was in modern-day Annaba, Algeria. [39] [40]
Rimmel prints it first, in Latin only, and thinks it was the source of the Confession. It is more probably a later compilation made from the Confession by someone else. It should be noticed that Gennadius II's (quasi-Platonic) philosophy is in evidence in his Confession (God cannot be interpreted, theos from theein, etc.; cf. Rimmel
Saint Pio and Saint Leopold Mandic were designated as saint-confessors to inspire people to become reconciled to the Church and to God, by the confession of their sins. [151] Saint Pio of Pietrelcina was named the patron saint of civil defence volunteers after a group of 160 petitioned the Italian Bishops' Conference for this designation.
David is depicted giving a penitential psalm in this 1860 woodcut by Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld. The Penitential Psalms or Psalms of Confession, so named in Cassiodorus's commentary of the 6th century AD, are the Psalms 6, 31, 37, 50, 101, 129, and 142 (6, 32, 38, 51, 102, 130, and 143 in the Hebrew numbering).
One commonly cited event, from the Confessions (6.8.13) concerns the young Alypius, who had extremely strong moral beliefs, being taken by friends to watch violent Roman games in the arena. He initially resisted this, keeping his eyes shut, but he was unable to control himself because of the sounds and eventually succumbed and opened his eyes.
Made by Jan Brokoff upon a model by Matthias Rauchmiller in 1683, on the supposed 300th anniversary of the saint's death, which was until the mid-18th century presumed to have happened in 1383. It was the basis for a number of statues of the saint all across the Europe. Cross on the bridge of St. John of Nepomuk St. John of Nepomuk in Buchach ...