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The name of the book is a reference to St. Augustine of Hippo, the patron saint of the Order of the Holy Cross. Now in the eighteenth printing of the 1967 revised edition, it remains popular among High Church Anglicans in North America. It is used as a companion to the Book of Common Prayer (American editions of 1928
The major theme Augustus addresses is the ability of circumstances to change the personality and behavior of a person. [3] The conditions that surrounded Augustus's rise to power plagued Ancient Rome with violence and contention, which led to Augustus working hard to implement a time of peace and cooperation in Rome, commonly referred to as the Pax Romana or the Pax Augusta.
August 16 is the 228th day of the year ... setting three records that held until 2012: High-altitude jump, free fall, ... 2023 – Howard S. Becker, American ...
August Hermann Francke (German: [ˈaʊɡʊst ˈhɛʁman ˈfʁaŋkə] ⓘ; 22 March 1663 – 8 June 1727) was a German Lutheran clergyman, theologian, philanthropist, and Biblical scholar.
He restored genuine Lutheranism to Saxony and began to work on a way to bring unity among Lutherans by commencing a process that would lead to the publication, in 1580, of the Lutheran Book of Concord. Augustus personally sponsored the publication of the Book of Concord, a book containing the various Lutheran Confessions of faith, which was ...
Gratian (/ ˈ ɡ r eɪ ʃ i ən /; [3] Latin: Gratianus; 18 April 359 – 25 August 383) was emperor of the Western Roman Empire from 367 to 383. The eldest son of Valentinian I, Gratian was raised to the rank of Augustus as a child and inherited the West after his father's death in 375.
The Curonians or Kurs (Latvian: kurši; Lithuanian: kuršiai) were a medieval Baltic [1] tribe living on the shores of the Baltic Sea in the 5th–16th centuries, in what are now western parts of Latvia and Lithuania. They eventually merged with other Baltic tribes contributing to the ethnogenesis of present-day Latvians and Lithuanians.
The fifth book in Conn Iggulden's historical fiction series, Emperor, entitled The Blood of Gods (2013), deals with the rise of Augustus and events after Julius Caesar's assassination. Augustus (as Octavian) is an important character in Robert Harris' 2015 historical novel Dictator , which chronicles the last fifteen years of Cicero's life.