St Augustine, the outsider
St Augustine at the University of Carthage by Benozzo Gozzoli
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Aurelius Augustinus, otherwise known as St Augustine, was writing to an aristocratic Christian landowner called Fabiola, who was sheltering an errant young bishop and former protégé of his. He added that she should be forthright in her dealings with the young man, “for you are just enough older than him that you may appropriately show him a parent’s affection”. Augustine was by this time in his late sixties, long established in his episcopacy, but the tone of the letter was candid dismay and bafflement. He was writing to Fabiola as an equal and appealing to her for guidance.
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