St. Augustine

St. Augustine

St. Augustine started out as a very elegant young leader, but also did some awful things. He drank, gambled, and went to go see prostitutes. His mother tried to make him a Christian because at the time he did not believe in the Lord. Augustine then became Manichaean. One year later he went to Milan where he would meet Bishop Ambrose and learn to study Plato. Augustine began to think that Manichaean was not suitable to what he wanted and Plato's philosophy was more understandable. With Monica's love and Ambrose's message, Augustine changed his life by getting married and later on baptized.

From the very beginning when Augustine first met Ambrose he started to question Christianity. Augustine and his mother started to visit Ambrose, on a regular basis, at his house. On top of that Augustine was so remotely interested that he attended Sunday Mass just to hear Ambrose teach the word. Significantly, when Augustine turned the age of thirty three he was baptized by Ambrose and would go on to become the bishop of Hippo.

Yes, I believe from personal experience that one person can make an impact on the spiritual like of another person. An example would be my school life. When I was about ten or eleven I didn't want to go to school and have a temper tantrum until my parents let me stay home. My sister impacted my life immensely. She brought me to the soup kitchen with my parents and took me out of the bad crowd of kids that I used to hang around with. She taught me that how I wouldn't want to be here when I get older and school was that only way out. Ever since that day, I have become to know the Lord and attend church every Sunday.

Augustine was born in a region of North Africa in an area called Roman Africa because of its language being Latin and Roman customs. His mother's name was Monica and she was apart of the Christian faith. His father was pagan and a Roman Official who had passed away early on in Augustine's life. Augustine's childhood sin was that he visited prostitutes, drank alcohol, and gambled often. Augustine was taught in Northern Africa but didn't lead a life one would think of. He missed school for a year and got into his terrible non-Christian like habits. Augustine believed in Manichaeism where one god created good and another created evil. As a result the believers were not accountable for the sins that they commit. When