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In this one man, the whole Church has been assumed by the Word.

— Augustine of Hippo

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Augustine of Hippo

About Augustine of Hippo

St. Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 โ€“ 28 August 430) was a Christian theologian, rhetor, North African bishop, Doctor of the Catholic Church, saint, and a philosopher influenced in his early years by Manichaeism and the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus.