Who was Augustine of Hippo?

             Augustine of Hippo was born on November thirteen, three hundred fifty four. More commonly he is known as Augustine, St. Augustine, St. Austin, St. Augoustinos, Blessed Augustine, or St. Augustine the Blessed. He was a bishop of Hippo Regius, but he was also a philosopher and a theologian. Augustine spoke Latin and lived in the Roman African Province. Then in the summer of three hundred eighty six, he converted to Christianity. After that, he gave up his career in rhetoric, quit his teaching position at Milan, and stopped thinking about any ideas of marriage. Instead, he spent the rest of his life devoted to God. He wrote over hundred different works in Latin. Some of the things he wrote about were the events that took place in his early life, his faith such as why God gave us free will, and some other earlier works that he wrote at the end of his life close to death. His writing was very inspiring to fellow Christians and was influential towards Western Christianity. When Augustine was sick in bed, a man came to him. He said that in a dream he was told to come to Augustine to ask him to make one of his relatives whole again. Augustine laid his own hands on the man’s sick relative. Then by the time they both left, the sick relative was cured. On August twenty eight, four hundred thirty Augustine died from his previous illness. He is now a pre-eminent Doctor of the Church and a patron of the Augustinian religious orders. Also he became the patron saint of brewers, printers, theologians, sore eyes, and many cities and dioceses.