Augustine the Bishop

Augustine of Africa, bishop of Hippo Regius, was a man renowned throughout the world for learning both sacred and secular, unblemished in the faith and pure in life. He wrote so many works that they cannot all be collected. For who is there that can boast of having all his works, or who reads so diligently as to read all he has written? Even as an old man he published fifteen books On the Trinity, which he had begun as a young man. In this work, as Scripture says, brought into the chamber of the king and adorned with the many-colored robe of the wisdom of God, he presented a church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing. In his work On the Incarnation of the Lord he also showed a piety all his own. On the resurrection of the dead he wrote with equal sincerity, and left it to the less able to raise doubts about infants lost before birth. [a]