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.

Written in about A.D. 400, ‘Confessions’ details how God worked in the saint’s life and reads not just as a story but as a ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

(RNS) In the summer of 430, the great Christian writer and bishop Augustine of Hippo lay dying as barbarians besieged his North African city – basically a mop-up operation in the slow-motion ...

The teenage theft of pears from an orchard is the springboard for Garry Wills' latest exploration of Augustine of Hippo's "Confessions." In "Saint Augustine's Sin," the award-winning historian ...

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

St. 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 ...

The liberal political philosopher John Rawls bestowed on St. Augustine of Hippo a dubious honor. He identified Augustine, along with the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, as one of “the two ...

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. The relic is on loan ...