St. Augustine Research Paper

During the 354 to 430 AD, St. Augustine served as a bishop in the church of Hippo and at the same time, he was among the early founders of Christian churches in northern parts of Africa. He was also a theologian and his ideas that were influential to the Roman Catholic believers and the Protestants. His journey to Christianity was not just a walk in the park. Augustine, in his early ages, began finding reality about the widely held pagan beliefs and sects in his life. He also practised a lot of immorality. He then confessed, about his evil life in the book Confessions, which up-to-date is rated as an extreme Christian testimony (Nicholson, 2018).

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The Saint was born on 13th November, 353 AD in Thagaste Africa, currently known as Algeria

Patrick did not Christianity as a religion though that did not hinder his wife and children worship in Christianity and allowed Monica raise the children as Christian believers but converted just before he died into Christianity. Augustine was highly influenced by the kind of faith his mother had it was that kind of faith that would abide by him all through in His life. On contrary his father had a little impact on Augustine's life and during his confession; he featured his as a vague figure showing how distant he was from his father. He was excellent in academic and gave his parents early hopes in school and as a result, the parents worked harder and saved so that he could join a better Roman school where he will pursue a successful career. His parent took him to Madaura to further his studies, but the little cash he had could not sustain his life in school. He was forced to leave school for a year as his father gathered more tuition fee. He lived in dissolution in his early life whereby none of his parents was concerned about his personal traits but concentrated only on his academic success (Bonner, 2002 p15-