St. Augustine of Hippo

Feast 28 August

Doctor of grace. The Confessions. The City of God.

Sacred art

Statues and images

The portrait kept with St. Augustine of Hippo is the image this library has of Augustine. The honour goes to the person, and through the person to God. It is not a machine, and it is not a substitute for the life written below.

The whole treasury

Son of Monica. Converted under Ambrose. Bishop of Hippo. Died 430 as the Vandals reached the gates. The West still thinks in his sentences.

Signs that name Augustine

If it belongs to Augustine, it is here, with a door back into the story.

EucharisticLong veneration

Offida

Lanciano, then Offida1273

Another stolen Host, another bleeding: a woman of Lanciano hides the Sacrament in a stable wall. Blood soaks the tiles. Franciscans later carry the relic to Offida.