History-Makers: Augustine of Hippo Gets Dragged Into Sainthood

"Failing Up" is all part of the plan when God Himself is on your side. Let's meet the embodiment of that dynamic in Augustine of Hippo: the disaster of a man who became one of Christianity's most important Saints ever.

SOURCES & Further Reading:
“The City Of God Against The Pagans” by Saint Augustine
“Confessions” by Saint Augustine
“The Roman Way” by Edith Hamilton
“Augustine, Part One” and “Augustine, Part Two” from “The Early Middle Ages” by Philip Daileader
“Augustine of Hippo” and “Ambrose, Jerome, and Gregory the Great” from “Great Minds of the Medieval World” by Dorsey Armstrong
“Augustine and the Confessions”, “Augustine and the World of Classical Antiquity”, and "The Corpus of Augustine's Writings" from “St. Augustine’s Confessions” by William R. Cook and Ronald D. Hertzman

MUSIC:
"Suture Self" from Age of Mythology OST
"Sneaky Snitch" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

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