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Saint Augustine   /seɪnt ˈɑgəstˌin/   Listen
Saint Augustine

noun
1.
(Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the early Christian church; after a dramatic conversion to Christianity he became bishop of Hippo Regius in North Africa; St. Augustine emphasized man's need for grace (354-430).  Synonyms: Augustine, Augustine of Hippo, St. Augustine.
2.
A resort city in northeastern Florida; the oldest city in the United States.  Synonym: St. Augustine.






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"Saint Augustine" Quotes from Famous Books



... Christianity. Great religious and political changes are never made by calm and moderate language. Was any form of Christianity ever substituted either for Paganism or any other form of Christianity without heat, exaggeration, and fierce invective? Saint Augustine ridiculed one of the Roman gods in grossly indecent language. Men cannot discuss doctrines like eternal punishment as they do questions in philology. And "to say that you may discuss the truth of religion, ...
— Prisoner for Blasphemy • G. W. [George William] Foote

... which undertook to explain everything, easily accounted for the social and political disabilities of woman. Goguet quotes the story from Saint Augustine, who got it from Varro. Cecrops, building Athens, saw starting from the earth an olive-plant and a fountain, side by side. The Delphic oracle said that this indicated a strife between Minerva and Neptune for ...
— Women and the Alphabet • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

... to Saint Augustine, is essentially gratuitous, and precedes sin in man. Bossuet expressed the same thought in his style so full of poesy and tenderness: When God formed the bowels of man, he originally placed goodness there. In fact, the first determination of free will is in this natural GOODNESS, ...
— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon

... known to all that in the year of the birth of our same Lord Jesus Christ, 1631, the fourteenth indiction, the twenty-ninth day of March, and the eighth year of the pontificate of our most holy father in Christ and our lord Urban VIII, by divine Providence pope, the reverend brethren of the Order of Saint Augustine resident in the province of the Philippines, who made their profession in Spain, have proceeded against the brethren similarly resident in the same province, who were received into the order in the Indias. As filed ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 (Vol 28 of 55) • Various



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