In his first pronouncement to the faithful, Pope Leo XIV claimed to be “Son of St. Augustine.”
“I am a son of St. Augustine, Augustinian, who said,” With you are Christian, and to you Bishop. “In this sense we can all walk together towards this homeland, to which God has prepared us,” he said.
Learn below who St. Augustine was.
Who was St. Augustine?
Aurélio Agostinho was born in Tagaste, a region where today is Mediterranean Africa, on November 13 of the year 354.
According to the Agostinian province of Brazil, he went to Carthage at 17, where he dedicated himself to study and reading books.
At the age of twenty, he returned to a tagaste as a teacher, with a woman and a son, Adeodato, but returned shortly thereafter to Carthage.
Subsequently, he became a teacher in Rome and then went to Milan, where he won the rhetorical chair.
There, he began to watch the sermons of Bishop Ambrósio. It was baptized by St. Ambrose in April 387.
Subsequently, Augustine returned to the city of Hippo and was sacred bishop. Hence the name with which it is also known: Augustine of Hippo.
With his service for the most needy, he was also known as the “father of the poor.”
Augustine wrote 113 works, not to mention the letters – of which more than 200 are retained – and sermons, according to Agostinian province.
“Among all the works, two stand out for genius:” The City of God, “which represents the first attempt to make a Christian interpretation of history, and” The Confessions, “where Augustine manifests his weakness, which generates evil, and God, the source of all good and absolute truth,” says the province.
According to the Britannic Encyclopedia, most thinkers and writers in theology and metaphysics of later centuries were influenced by Augustine.
He died on August 28, 430 and his remains are in the city of Pavia, northern Italy.
According to Father Brendan Coleman Mc Donald, Augustine is one of the four doctors of the Latin Church and was canonized by popular acclamation and recognized as a doctor of the Church in 1292, for Boniface VIII.
This content was originally published in who is St. Augustine, quoted in Pope Leo XIV’s first speech on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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