Saint augustine

A reflection for the start of the Academic Year in Washington DC: A wonderful painting in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge of Saint Augustine. He is shown deep in thought with his quill poised as he works on one of his writings. It seemed to me a good image of what we will be engaged in this academic year!

Piero della Francesca, Saint Augustine Italian, ca. 1454-1469 Lisbon, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga Augustine of Hippo is one of the most influential persons who has ever lived. A man of the fourth century, he still has a profound influence on the twenty-first He is one of the first persons to be designated as a Doctor of the Church for his profound works of philosophy, which laid the basis for most of the thought of Western Europe and, more specifically, for the Christian thinkers that have…

Attributed to Francisco de Zurbarán - Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo (354-430) in Meditation, circa 1620 - 1624 - Category:17th-century paintings of Augustinus - Wikimedia Commons

From seductresses to men who lived on pillars for decades, many of the Catholic saints were bizarre, unhinged or wicked.

Saint Augustine writing "The City of God" in the early 5th century AD