St. Augustine

Introduction

Saint Augustine was revered as a person exceptional holiness; the world also saw him as a marvel due to his Model of excellence. Saint Augustine, who was born in 354 A.D., was a Bishop of an ancient Numidian town in northwestern Africa, commonly known as Hippo Regius, which is currently part of Algeria. He was a renowned philosopher of the origin of Latin language, and was also had profound knowledge in the field of Theology, which is an intellectual and a reason based learning of religion and its effects and impacts. St. Augustine provided the world with a Latin version of theology, which denotes the worshipping or idolization of a supernatural as a controlling force of a few parts of world or aspects of one's life.

Augustine And His Shame For Having Wept For Dido

In one of his most famous and renowned literally works, Confessions, Augustine explicitly discloses his life for his followers and readers, and had jotted down everything happened in his life that he could remember, right from his early childhood, and those writings in his confessions encompassed all good and bad memories from his life.

Right from his early childhood, Augustine had dreaded learning, and abhorred to be forced to study. Of all other domains, Augustine detested Greek the most. He had no interest in learning Greek; and it was equally difficult to persuade him to do that. He admits having loved learning Latin, only after he was finished and through the first phase of its grammar, which he hated as much as he hated Greek. The main reason behind his disinterest was his inability to understand and comprehend the languages.

Remembering the wandering of Aeneas, Augustine would inadvertently cry for Dido, the reason he cried was because he was touched by the fact that Dido gave her life ...