15 events with tag "Augustine"
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ID: 5061
Augustine joins Manichaean sect - attracted by their claim to pure reason and explanation of evil, remains 'hearer' for nine years
ID: 5061
383
ID: 5063
Augustine meets Faustus of Mileve - leading Manichaean bishop disappoints with inability to answer philosophical questions
ID: 5063
384
ID: 5064
Augustine abandons Manichaeism - moves to Rome then Milan, influenced by skeptical philosophy before Christian conversion
ID: 5064
386
ID: 3822
St. Augustine's conversion - 'Take and read' in Milan garden, reads Romans 13:13-14
ID: 3822
387
ID: 3823
St. Augustine baptized by St. Ambrose - with son Adeodatus and friend Alypius, Monica dies at Ostia
ID: 3823
387
ID: 5065
Death of St. Monica at Ostia - dies after seeing Augustine's conversion, her prayers answered after years of weeping
ID: 5065
388
ID: 5066
Augustine begins anti-Manichaean writings - produces multiple works refuting dualism, defends goodness of creation
ID: 5066
395
ID: 3826
St. Augustine becomes Bishop of Hippo - reluctantly ordained, serves 35 years, writes against heresies
ID: 3826
397
ID: 3827
St. Augustine writes Confessions - first spiritual autobiography, 'Our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee'
ID: 3827
413
ID: 3831
St. Augustine begins City of God - response to fall of Rome, Christian philosophy of history, takes 13 years
ID: 3831
423
ID: 3791
St. Augustine writes monastic rule - emphasizes charity and common life, influences later Western monasticism
ID: 3791
428
ID: 4887
Augustine writes On Heresies - Describes 88 heresies, more systematic than predecessors
ID: 4887
430
ID: 3832
St. Augustine dies during Vandal siege of Hippo - most influential Western theologian, wrote 5 million words
ID: 3832
597
ID: 2542
Augustine arrives in Kent - sent by Pope Gregory to convert English, Ethelbert of Kent converts
ID: 2542
601
ID: 2543
Augustine consecrated first Archbishop of Canterbury - establishes ecclesiastical capital of England
ID: 2543