(Nov 13, 354, Thagaste – Apr 28, 430, Hippo Regius)
I. Life – II. Works – III. Influence
I. Life
1. Youth.
Augustine himself has supplied a wealth of information with a relative chronology (esp. in his Confessiones, Retractationes, and Epistulae); the biography of his younger friend Possidius is also important. Augustine was born in the city of Thagaste in Roman North Africa (Souk Ahras, Algeria). His mother, Monica, was a Catholic Christian, and his father, Patricius, belonged to one of …