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Feast of Augustine of Hippo

Augustine's most personal testimony is also his most important: his prayer for his dead mother Monica in the Confessions. He does not argue for prayer for the dead — he does it. The Confessions were written as an autobiography addressed to God. What is natural and unjustified is ancient. This is the kind of evidence worth more than ten systematic arguments.

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Death of St. Augustine of Hippo

The greatest theologian of the Latin West died as the Vandals besieged his city. His Confessions, City of God, and On the Trinity shaped Western Christianity for over a millennium. His conversion at 31, recorded in the Confessions, remains one of history's most studied spiritual journeys.

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