{ "_meta": { "project": "Latin Prayer", "projectUrl": "https://latinprayer.org", "apiDocs": "https://latinprayer.org/llms.txt", "content": "Augustine of Hippo — feast August 28.", "saint": { "slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "name": "Augustine of Hippo", "latinName": "Augustinus Hipponensis", "feastMonth": 8, "feastDay": 28, "feastLabel": "August 28", "epochLabel": "354–430, Roman North Africa", "summary": "Doctor of the Church, bishop of Hippo, author of the *Confessiones* and *De Civitate Dei*.", "imageUrl": null, "imageCredit": null, "sourceUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo", "commonsClass": "confessor-pont", "url": "https://latinprayer.org/saints/augustine-of-hippo/", "jsonUrl": "https://latinprayer.org/saints/augustine-of-hippo.json" } }, "slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "name": "Augustine of Hippo", "latinName": "Augustinus Hipponensis", "feastMonth": 8, "feastDay": 28, "feastLabel": "August 28", "epochLabel": "354–430, Roman North Africa", "summary": "Doctor of the Church, bishop of Hippo, author of the *Confessiones* and *De Civitate Dei*.", "imageUrl": null, "imageCredit": null, "sourceUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo", "commonsClass": "confessor-pont", "url": "https://latinprayer.org/saints/augustine-of-hippo/", "jsonUrl": "https://latinprayer.org/saints/augustine-of-hippo.json", "bodyMarkdown": "Born in Thagaste (modern-day Algeria) in 354 to a pagan father\nand the future Saint Monica, Augustine spent his early adulthood\nin pursuit of rhetoric, philosophy, and pleasure. After years of\ninterior turning he was baptized at Easter 387 in Milan by Saint\nAmbrose, and a few years later was made bishop of Hippo Regius —\na see he held for over thirty years.\n\nHis writings shaped Western Christianity more profoundly than\nthose of any other Father. The *Confessiones* (c. 397) is the\nfirst true autobiography in the Western canon; the *De Civitate\nDei* (begun 413, finished 426) reframed history as the\ninterlocked narratives of the City of God and the City of Man.\nSmaller works on grace, free will, the Trinity, and the\nsacraments have remained reference points ever since.\n\n> Tu nos fecisti ad te, et inquietum est cor nostrum, donec\n> requiescat in te.\n\n*You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is\nrestless until it rests in you.* (Conf. I.1)", "bodyHtml": "

Born in Thagaste (modern-day Algeria) in 354 to a pagan father\nand the future Saint Monica, Augustine spent his early adulthood\nin pursuit of rhetoric, philosophy, and pleasure. After years of\ninterior turning he was baptized at Easter 387 in Milan by Saint\nAmbrose, and a few years later was made bishop of Hippo Regius —\na see he held for over thirty years.

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His writings shaped Western Christianity more profoundly than\nthose of any other Father. The Confessiones (c. 397) is the\nfirst true autobiography in the Western canon; the De Civitate\nDei (begun 413, finished 426) reframed history as the\ninterlocked narratives of the City of God and the City of Man.\nSmaller works on grace, free will, the Trinity, and the\nsacraments have remained reference points ever since.

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Tu nos fecisti ad te, et inquietum est cor nostrum, donec\nrequiescat in te.

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You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is\nrestless until it rests in you. (Conf. I.1)

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