St. Augustine of Hippo, "Christian Instruction" c. 397 A.D. "We read in the books of the Maccabees (2 Maccabees 12:43) that sacrifice was offered for the dead. But even if it were found nowhere in ...

He was the first son of Saint Monica and a pagan father ... On August 28, 430, as Hippo was under siege by the Vandals, Augustine died, at the age of 76. His legacy continues to deeply shape ...

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2025 is an occasion to renew faith in Christ as the source of life and unity. Inspired ...

This feast day of Saint Augustine, America would do well to return ... army (410 A.D.), and died as Vandal barbarians stormed Hippo, the seat of his episcopate (430 A.D.). The diversity of his ...

St. Augustine reminds us that history has a meaning, a direction, which has at its center the event of the Incarnation.