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In The Confessions of St. Augustine, a young boy whose civil servant parents of low status find enough money to send their son to be educated in classical Roman culture as a means to rise in society. The boy gives into the pressures of his friends and his own curiosity in adolescence, only to convert to a moral lifestyle as a grown man. St. Augustine's conversion from Roman pleasure-seeking to the ethical truth-seeking ways of Christianity was quite a transformation. Augustine's mother, among other women, was not a barrier, but, on the contrary, aided Augustine in his pursuit of holiness.
St. Augustine lived in classical Roman society that basically contained three kinds of people as revealed to the readers by Augustine's descriptions. There were Pagans, who gave into hedonistic activities and did not worship one all-powerful God. Catechumens were people who were in the process of conversion that were being taught the principles of the Church by catechists. Lastly,......

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