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.

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.

TODAY is the Feast Day of St Augustine of Hippo who was bishop of the walled city of Hippo Regius in North Africa where he died aged 75 on August 28, 430.

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 ...

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

Augustine of Hippo lived long before Facebook, and he spent much of his life thinking about how human beings are shaped by words, both divine and human. We tend to forget that Augustine was a ...

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 ...

Boundless curiosity and subsequent personal exploration encompasses 4th century journeyman Saint Augustine of Hippo. From Paganism to Christianity, his transformation strikes as remarkable and ...

Saint Augustine of Hippo: an Intellectual Biography, by Miles Hollingworth, review A passionate work that traces the intellectual growth of St Augustine is worth all the effort, says Cole Moreton ...

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 ...