Augustine of Hippo

✶354

†430

3 candles burning, 24 lit in all

About their life

Augustine of Hippo, also well-known as St. Augustine, or Saint Augustine, was a Christian theologian and philosopher from Thagaste, Numidia Cirtensis and the Bishop of Hippo Regius. He is generally regarded as one of the most influential philosophers in the history of the Western world, and he is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers of the Latin Church in the Patristic Period.

Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430)

☆ Follow

Biography from the article Augustine of Hippo on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.