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St. Augustine

St. Augustine
St. Augustine started out as a very elegant young leader, but also did some awful things. He drank, gambled, and went to go see prostitutes. His mother tried to make him a Christian because at the time he did not believe in the Lord. Augustine then became Manichaean. One year later he went to Milan where he would meet Bishop Ambrose and learn to study Plato. Augustine began to think that Manichaean was not suitable to what he wanted and Plato's philosophy was more understandable. With Monica’s love and Ambrose's message, Augustine changed his life by getting married and later on baptized.
From the very beginning when Augustine first met Ambrose he started to question Christianity. Augustine and his mother started to visit Ambrose, on a regular basis, at his house. On top of that Augustine was so remotely interested that he attended Sunday Mass just to hear Ambrose teach the word. Significantly, when Augustine turned the age of thirty three he was baptized by......


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