Donald Burt, in Augustine's World: An Introduction to His Speculative Philosophy by Donald Burt, member of the Augustinian Order, Villanova University
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Monica his mother was almost certainly a Berber and his father was probably a mixture of Berber and Roman ancestry.
— Donald Burt
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About Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 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.
About Augustine of Hippo
St. Augustine of Hippo (13 November 354 – 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.
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