Theologian · 354 – 430

Augustine of Hippo

Little-Known Facts

Before his conversion, Augustine followed Manichaeism and lived a worldly youth he later described candidly in Confessions.
He died as the Vandals besieged his city of Hippo, near the end of the Western Roman Empire.

Was Augustine European?

Augustine was born and spent most of his life in Roman North Africa, in present-day Algeria, though he wrote in Latin within the Roman world.