St. Augustine of Hippo: The One Church Father Everyone’s Heard Of

Part Three of the Church Fathers series

“Saint Augustine” by Philippe de Champaigne, 1650 (Image: Wikimedia Commons)

In the first two parts of this series, I profiled St. Ambrose of Milan and St. Jerome, and in those profiles I mentioned a third Church Father who lived at the same time and interacted with both of them in important ways. Of the three, he is the one you are most likely to have heard of…