Augustine of Hippo

13 November 354 – 28 August 430

Augustine was born in Thagaste (present-day Souk Ahras, Algeria), a provincial Roman city in North Africa, the son of a Catholic mother and pagan father. He was raised a Catholic, and at age of 11, he went to school at Madaurus, about 19 miles south of Thagaste. There he learned both Latin literature and pagan beliefs and practices. He returned home in 369 and stayed for about two yeras, reading Cicero's dialogue Hortensius. At age 17 he went to Carthage to continue his education in rhetoric. He decided to follow the Manichaean religion, lived a hedonistic lifestyle for a time, and took a love

• Confessions
• De civitate Dei
• City of God
• Concerning the city of God against the pagans
• Enarrationes in Psalmos
• The essential Augustine
• Augustine
• De Genesi ad litteram
• De libero arbitrio
• Of true religion
• The city of God ; an abridged version from the translation by Gerald G. Walsh [and others] with a condensation of the original forward by Etienne Gilson. Edited, with an introd. by Vernon J. Bourke
• City of God