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St. Augustine of Hippo is the patron of brewers because of his conversion from a former life of loose living, which included parties, entertainment, and worldly ambitions. His complete turnaround and conversion has been an inspiration to many who struggle with a particular vice or habit they long to break. This famous son of St. Monica was born in Africa and spent many years of his life in wicked living and in false beliefs. Though he ... Continue Reading

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  1. TATENDA NDLOVU
    2 months ago

    St Augustine i have been given you by God pray for me that I may be successful in the work of God

  2. Joan
    8 months ago

    St Augustine, pray for me for the conversion of my ex-husband to turn away from a godless lifestyle and to return to the matrimonial home to lead a life which is God-centered. Like St Monica, I pray that Jesus touched Christopher's heart soon.

  3. Joseph Mathew
    8 months ago

    St. Augustine of Hippo, Please pray for me and for my family to lead a life pleasing to God and not succoumb to the many temptations that confront us in our day to day life..

  4. veronica
    8 months ago

    St. Augustine through your prayers iam asking God to help my brother and his son to have strong faith in god and go to church to praise God Amen.

  5. Kokkeragadda.Henry Bhaskara Rao
    8 months ago

    Dear St.Augustine! I am inspired by your miraculous conversion to Christian faith and the way you become seedling for the faithfulI all over,and you have been the treasure and resource person for the FAITH preachers and practitioners. I have been praying for my sons and I ask you to intercede for my children to grow in staunch faith in catholicism.,Amen.

  6. Fr. George
    8 months ago

    A great Saint, who had a great Mother and who needs to be studied and re-studied.
    A great mind, an unique soul and an oustanding teaching hierarch of the Universal Church, Orthodox and Catholic.

  7. Kokkeragadda.Henry Bhaskara Rao
    8 months ago

    St.Augustine is a great saint ,the treasure of catholic faith. He is a role model even to the present day youth to convert themselves to the devout life.I pray St.Augustine for the intersession of my sons to dedicate their lives for the LORD,s mission.
    Great and Dear St.Augustine! pray for us.

  8. chet bas
    8 months ago

    Happy feast day St. Augustine. thank you for aiding me in turning my life around

  9. andrea
    9 months ago

    Why do you all pray to St. Augustine? He is just a person that followed God with all of his heart and God worked through him to do some pretty amazing things. Pray to Jesus, not the people that followed him hole heartily, that are now dead and happy in heaven and therefore can't hear our depressing prayers. Pray to God; he hears us and answers because he loves us all. Just like how much He loved St. Augustine to forgive and forget all of his past sins. God loves everyone no matter what. He's always waiting for those who aren't following Him to turn around. God loves you!

  10. Chance
    1 year ago

    I'm about to be Confirmed with St. Augustine as my saint. This article really helped me understand the life of him fully :)

  11. Tumwesigire Tadeo
    1 year ago

    I need help on Augustine's teaching on evil. Thank very much!

  12. michael varger
    1 year ago

    My Dear Augustine, how do I begin to thank you for the countless blessings and graces Christ the Risen Lord showered me from my early life all because of you. Our Holy Mother Church has been greatly influenced by your writings and for this alone we shoiuld thank God daily. My life is a living testimony of your presence and power of prayer without which I would not be here to write this note of gratitude. Today I come to you for help, and it is very urgent because my close friend wants to commit suicide, so let me very briefly tell you his story. Timmy was born on Sunday, 4th April 1976, to a Finnish family who immigrated to Sydney, Australia in 1970. Timmy's father was a hopeless alcoholic drinking his wages in filthy pubs and his mother a sober and hardworking woman struggling to feed her family of 6 children from a small salary she earned from cleaning a house of a wealthy but kind Jewish lady in the affluent Sydney suburb of Elizabeth Bay. Life was far from cozy and every day was a struggle to get by with meagre means. Timmy was 16 years old when his elder brother, a hopeless heroin addict, talked him into smoking heroin telling him that it wasn't addicitve if he smoked it as it was like smoking marijuana. Well, it didn't take long for Timmy to develop a $400 a day heroin habit. In 2004 his family funded his drug treatment and Timmy lived a clean life with a well paid job, played sport and restored classic BMW cars 1962-1965 series with great success until 13 months ago when he fell deeply in love with a young spunky girl (22 years old) who was a heroin addict. Timmy is now sleeping on park benches frequently assaulted by drunks and he's now soliciting gold coins from pedestrians and patrons in pubs. My Dearest Augustine, where there is life there is hope, so please storm Heaven to rescue Timmy from HELL, his heroin hell. May the Risen Lord rescue and restore Timmy back to his terrified and torn family. AMEN

  13. austin ly
    1 year ago

    what is the copyright and sponsor of this amazing article!

  14. b
    1 year ago

    augustine is my homeboy

  15. Dan Glesak
    1 year ago

    Augustines my boy, we go way back

  16. Onwu Oche Raphael
    1 year ago

    I'm to give a presentation on St.Augustine as an example to Africa. I have read and understand the life of St.Augustine, i pray through him to help me spread this that i have learned, also may the mercyful God for give my sin,so as to LOVE HE...in Jesus name,Amen.

  17. Onwu Oche Raphael
    1 year ago

    I'm to give a presentation on St.Augustine as an example to Africa. I have read and understand the life of St.Augustine, i pray through him to help me spread this that i have learned, also may the mercyful God for give my sin,so as to LOVE HE...in Jesus name,Amen.

  18. gaby
    1 year ago

    this is all the information i needed and more! : )

  19. Elizabeth Harding
    1 year ago

    I was looking for Saint Augustine's way of arguing the existence of God from assuming first that God exists then working out that everything else fits perfectly, or something to that intent. Have I got the wrong Augustine? Can you give me a two sentence quote I can use for this argument for the existence of God that I can use to people of reading age 11 yrs in English?

  20. Melinda
    1 year ago

    Wow, I am not Catholic but Saint Augustine is definitely a great example and a very influential person, no doubt. Might I suggest for all you people praying to him, why don't you follow his example and pray to Heavenly Father yourselves? Augustine is not God and can't create miracles, he was just a servant of Him.


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