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Augustine, sometimes called Austin, was born in northern Africa in the year of Our Lord 354. His pagan father converted on his deathbed thanks to Augustine’s Christian mother, St. Monica, a patroness of parents with wayward children. Augustine was a profligate youth who kept at least one concubine for many years, resulting in a son named Adeodatus. Augustine dabbled in many philosophies before becoming a Manichean heretic for several years. He finally converted, like his father, thanks to the fervent and constant prayers of his long-suffering mother, with the help of their friend St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan. Ambrose baptized both Augustine and Adeodatus, and with the bishop’s guidance Augustine went on to become a priest and eventually bishop of Hippo in North Africa. He fought many of the heresies he himself once followed, and led his church through the decline of the Roman Empire until his death in the year of Our Lord 430. For his countless contributions to theology and doctrine, Augustine is considered one of the Four Great Latin Fathers, along with his contemporaries Ss. Ambrose and Jerome, and the later Pope St. Gregory the Great. He is known as the “Doctor of Grace”.
AT Hippo Regius, in Africa, the birthday of St. Augustine, bishop and famous doctor of the Church. Converted and baptized by the blessed bishop Ambrose, he defended the Catholic faith with the greatest zeal against the Manicheans and other heretics, and after having sustained many other labors for the Church of God, he went to his reward in heaven. His relics, owing to the invasion of barbarians, were first brought from his own city into Sardinia, and afterwards taken by Luitprand, king of the Lombards, to Pavia, where they were deposited with due honors.
At Rome, the birthday of St. Hermes, an illustrious man, who, as we read in the Acts of the blessed pope Alexander, was first confined in prison, and afterwards ended his martyrdom by the sword, under the judge Aurelian.
At Brioude, in Auvergne, St. Julian, martyr, during the persecution of Diocletian. Being the companion of the blessed tribune Ferreol, and secretly serving Christ under a military garb, he was arrested by the soldiers, and killed in a barbarous manner by having his throat cut.
At Coutances, in France, St. Pelagius, martyr, who received the crown of martyrdom under the emperor Numerian and the judge Evilasius.
At Salerno, the holy martyrs Fortunatus, Caius, and Anthes, beheaded under the emperor Diocletian and the proconsul Leontius.
At Constantinople, the holy bishop Alexander, an aged and celebrated man, through whose efficacious prayers Arius, by the judgment of God, burst asunder and exposed his intestines.
At Saintes, St. Vivian, bishop and confessor.
Also, St. Moses, an AEthiopian, who gave up a life of robbery and became a renowned anchoret. He converted many robbers, and led them to a monastery.
℣. And elsewhere many other holy martyrs, confessors, and holy virgins.
℟. Thanks be to God.