Augustine entrusted himself to God every day, right up to the end of his life. He was struck by a fever while Vandal invaders were besieging Hippo over a period of almost three months.

On August 28, the universal church celebrated the feast of St. Augustine of Hippo, fifth-century bishop and doctor of the church. He was born in North Africa of a ...

Hippo, one of the few fortified cities, was overwhelmed with refugees. In the third month of the siege, the 76-year-old Augustine died, not from an arrow but from a fever.

S t. Augustine of Hippo (354-430) was probably the most influential Christian thinker after the Gospel writers and St. Paul. It is to him that we owe such doctrines as original sin and predestination.

St. Augustine honored by Pope Benedict as “a man of passion and faith” St. Augustine of Hippo Vatican City, Jan 9, 2008 / 08:32 am ...

Augustine of Hippo lived a wild life — abandoning the faith, fathering a child out of wedlock, and rejecting the values of his mother Monica. Monica, however, prayed for her son, that he would ...

The rector of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine, Father Thomas S. Willis, has announced plans for the celebration of the feast of Saint Augustine of Hippo. The city of St. Augustine is named … ...

Scenes from the Life of Saint Augustine of Hippo, circa 1490. Standing in front of the cascade of crimson curtains on the balcony of Saint Peter’s on the evening of May 8, with an emotional ...

Getting the relic, a finger of Saint Augustine of Hippo, to St. Augustine took years of planning with Italian and Vatican officials, according to the Diocese of St. Augustine.