. The lives of the saints. With introd. and additional lives of English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish, and Welsh saints, and a full index to the entire work. day Augustinewhile at table announced to the other bishops who hadtaken shelter in Hippo, that he had prayed God either todeliver the city or to strengthen His servants to bear Hiswill, or at least to take him out of this world. That repres-sion of error by the arm of flesh which he had leaned onagainst the Donatists was now to be excited by Vandalheretics against Catholicism. They that take the sword sliallperish by the sword. He may have f
. The lives of the saints. With introd. and additional lives of English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish, and Welsh saints, and a full index to the entire work. day Augustinewhile at table announced to the other bishops who hadtaken shelter in Hippo, that he had prayed God either todeliver the city or to strengthen His servants to bear Hiswill, or at least to take him out of this world. That repres-sion of error by the arm of flesh which he had leaned onagainst the Donatists was now to be excited by Vandalheretics against Catholicism. They that take the sword sliallperish by the sword. He may have foreseen this, and beensaddened to weariness of life by the prospect. He ceasednot to preach and work, till in August he was prostrated byfever ; and as he used to say that even approved Christiansand priests ought to die as penitents, he excluded his friendsfrom his room, except at certain hours, caused the peniten-tial psalms to be written out and fixed on the wall oppositehis bed, and repeated them with many tears; thus by hislast acts throwing over the consequences and with them theprinciples advanced in his later dangerous treatises that *- -*. CO(M bJo D< o rt to c 11 O ^ rt (/. .fcj , c ci 2 OJ H w 3) ■•3 < D <-■ y: u- ■/; O O o £ 1^ u ^ OJ 0^ k—. r. c T) .„ t, o N N o O o N N O c a C CO o < *- -^ August 28.] S. Augustine. 379 grew out of the Pelagian controversy. He expired onAug. 30, 430, in his seventy-seventh year. The body of S. Augustine was buried in the church ofS. Stephen at Hippo, but was removed to Sardinia fifty-sixyears after by the exiled African bishops. When Sardiniafell into the power of the Saracens, in 710, Luitprand, Kingof the Lombards, redeemed the body, and it was placed inthe church of S. Peter in Pavia. The relics have beensince moved into the cathedral. Some portions have beengiven lately ( 1837) to the diocese of Algiers and placedin a church erected on the ruined site of Hippo. S. Augustine is represented with
Size: 1295px × 1930px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., book, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectchristiansaints
