Lives and legends of the great hermits and fathers of the church, with other contemporary saints . town, where he was eagerly welcomed by his mother, towhose entreaties that he would become a Christian he stillturned a deaf ear. He lectured on literature at Tagaste forsome little time, winning a good deal of applause for hiseloquence, and no doubt the daily intercourse with St. Monicabad something to do with the change which now appearedin his views of life. When he was about twenty-five yearsold, he went back to Carthage and there had many inter-views with the celebrated Manichsean teacher Fa
Lives and legends of the great hermits and fathers of the church, with other contemporary saints . town, where he was eagerly welcomed by his mother, towhose entreaties that he would become a Christian he stillturned a deaf ear. He lectured on literature at Tagaste forsome little time, winning a good deal of applause for hiseloquence, and no doubt the daily intercourse with St. Monicabad something to do with the change which now appearedin his views of life. When he was about twenty-five yearsold, he went back to Carthage and there had many inter-views with the celebrated Manichsean teacher Faustus, whomhe eagerly cross-examined in the hope of finding the peacehe longed for. The result was complete disillusion. Notin this or any other sect, he felt, was the absolution for pasterror to be obtained, which alone could give him what heneeded. He determined to go to Rome, and his mother,who had watched his career thus far with trembling fear,rejoiced, for she hoped that in the Imperial city, where somany earnest Christians then resided, her beloved son wouldfind the necessary A linari photo] {Bologna Gallery THE FELICINI ALTAR-PIECE, 1494, WITH SAINTS AUGUSTINE AND MONICA By Francia To face p. i66 ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO 167 Saint Monica is said to have gone to the Bishop of Carthageand to have told him the whole story of her anxieties, weep-ing so bitterly the while that the good prelate said to her, Go in peace ; the son of so many tears cannot perish. Notin Rome, however, was the salvation to be effected. Augus-tine, it is true, gained much fame and wealth as a pleaderat the bar, but he sought in vain for the riches passingunderstanding which were the real object of his Pope Damasus, whose end was then close at hand,friend though he was of St. Jerome, nor any of his clergy, wereable to meet the need of the eager inquirer after truth, and,disgusted with what seemed to him the emptiness of allreligions, Augustine went to Milan, Here, most fortuna
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