In philosophy and the humanities, Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, was born in El Biar in Algiers ; Malek Bennabi and Frantz Fanon are noted for their thoughts on decolonization ; Augustine of Hippo was born in Tagaste ( modern-day Souk Ahras ); and Ibn Khaldun, though born in Tunis, wrote the Muqaddima while staying in Algeria.

This period had also known Augustine of Hippo, Nonius Marcellus and Martianus Capella among many others.

* Austin is a contracted form of Augustine of Hippo and Augustine of Canterbury.

** Monica of Hippo, mother of Augustine of Hippo

* Augustine of Hippo ( 354-430 AD )

The same word in adjectival form ( purgatorius-a-um, cleansing ), which appears also in non-religious writing, was already used by Christians such as Augustine of Hippo and Pope Gregory I to refer to an after-death cleansing.

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He applied this knowledge as preacher, concentrating especially on exegesis of the Old Testament, and his rhetorical abilities impressed Augustine of Hippo, who hitherto had thought poorly of Christian preachers.

His advice to Augustine of Hippo on this point was to follow local liturgical custom.

St. Ambrose was also traditionally credited with composing the hymn Te Deum, which he is said to have composed when he baptised St. Augustine of Hippo, his celebrated convert.

The first half is based mainly on the Soliloquies of St Augustine of Hippo, the remainder is drawn from various sources, and contains much that is Alfred's own and highly characteristic of him.

The commentary itself was written during the papacy of Pope Damasus I, that is, between 366 and 384, and is considered an important document of the Latin text of Paul before the Vulgate of Jerome, and of the interpretation of Paul prior to Augustine of Hippo.

** Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo ( or ; ;

November 13, 354 – August 28, 430 ), also known as St. Augustine, St. Austin, or St. Augoustinos, was bishop of Hippo Regius ( present-day Annaba, Algeria ).

Beginning with Augustine of Hippo, many have seen a connection to Noahide Law, while some modern scholars reject the connection to Noahide Law () and instead see as the basis.

He adds that this last has been controversial in that it has been claimed that this aspect of the doctrine is not found before the time of Augustine of Hippo, while others allege that it is implicit in the Church of the second and third centuries.

Only later was it given a different meaning, a process in which Augustine ( Bp of Hippo Regis, 395-430 ) played a part by emphasising the idea of " the link from consecrator to consecrated whereby the grace of order was handed on.

The first Archbishop of Canterbury was St Augustine ( not to be confused with St Augustine of Hippo ), who arrived in Kent in 597 AD, having been sent by Pope Gregory I on a mission to the English.

That doctrine had been written about much earlier by Augustine of Hippo and was eventually defined a dogma by the Council of Trent.

In the monastic library at Jarrow were a number of books by theologians, including works by Basil, Cassian, John Chrysostom, Isidore of Seville, Origen, Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine of Hippo, Jerome, Pope Gregory I, Ambrose of Milan, Cassiodorus, and Cyprian.

A 6th-century image of Augustine of Hippo | Saint Augustine, bishop of Hippo Regius.

A contrast of the scripture reading of, let us say, St. Augustine, John Bunyan, and Thomas Jefferson, all three of whom found in such study a real source of enlightenment, can tell us a great deal about these three men and the age that each represented and helped bring to conscious expression.

* August 28 – Augustine dies during the siege of Hippo Regius at age 75, leaving behind his monumental work The City of God and other works that will have influence on Christianity.

* Augustine, age 40, becomes bishop of Hippo Regius ( modern Algeria ).

* Augustine of Hippo, age 59, begins to writes his spiritual book De Civitate Dei ( City of God ) as a reply to the charge that Christianity was responsible for the decline of the Roman Empire.

Contemporary histories indicate that from an early age Orosius was loquacious and erudite, alluding to statements to this effect made by both Saint Augustine and Pope Gelasius I.

Following Augustine in the City of God ( xiv. 26 ), “ man was furnished with food against hunger, with drink against thirst, and with the tree of life against the ravages of old age .”

In accordance with this view, Augustine divided history into two separate dispensations, first the church age ( the current age of 6, 000 years ), and then the millennial kingdom ( Sermon 259. 2 ).

This explanation is given among others by Augustine in his Civitate Dei, where he notes that the generating sentence has 27 letters, i. e. 3 x 3 x 3, which in that age indicated power.

Brown, who reads at least fifteen languages, established himself at the age of 32 with his biography of Augustine of Hippo.

On Monday, June 19, 2006, founding guitarist Duane Roland died at his home in St. Augustine, Florida at the age of 53.

St Augustine ’ s book The City of God contains two chapters indicating a debate between Christians and pagans over human origins: Book XII, chapter 10 is called " Of the falseness of the history that the world hath continued many thousand years ", while that of book XVIII, chapter 40 is " The Egyptians ’ abominable lyings, to claim their wisdom the age of 100, 000 years ".

Armed with maps, cigarettes and many copies of an old photograph of Augustine and his grandfather, Jonathan begins his adventure with Ukrainian native and soon-to-be good friend, Alexander " Alex " Perchov, who is Foer's age and very fond of American pop culture, albeit culture that is already out of date in the United States.

Victorinus ' religious conversion from Platonism to Christianity ( c. 355 ), " at an advanced old age " according to Jerome, made a great impression on Augustine of Hippo, as recounted in Book 8 of the latter's Confessions.

At 30 years of age, having become interested in theology, and being desirous of consulting St. Augustine, he commenced the study of Latin.

After Charley's death at a young age, Augustine met Father Peter McGirr, an Irish-American priest, who gave him the opportunity to attend St. Peter's parochial school during the winter months when the factory was closed.

* Lesser Feasts and Commemorations on the Lutheran liturgical calendar include Anthony of Egypt on January 17, Henry, Bishop of Uppsala, martyr Henry of Uppsala on January 19, Timothy, Titus and Silas, missionaries St Timothy, St Titus and St Silas Day on January 26, Ansgar, Bishop of Hamburg, missionary to Denmark and Sweden St Ansgar on February 3, Cyril, monk and Methodius, bishop, missionaries to the Slavs St Cyril and St Methodius on February 14, Gregory the Great on March 12, St Patrick on March 17, Olavus Petri, priest and Laurentius Petri, Bishop of Uppsala, on April 19, St Anselm on April 21, Catherine of Siena on April 29, St Athanasius on May 2, St Monica on May 4, Eric IX of Sweden on May 18, St Boniface on June 5, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus on June 14, Benedict of Nursia on July 11, Birgitta of Sweden on July 23, St Anne, Mother of Mary on July 26, St Dominic on August 8, Augustine of Hippo on August 28, St Cyprian on September 16, Teresa of Avila on October 15, Martin de Porres on November 3, Martin of Tours on November 11, Elizabeth of Hungary on November 17, St Lucy on December 13.

On January 17, volunteers and Seminoles met south of St. Augustine at the Battle of Dunlawton.

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés ( 15 February 1519 – 17 September 1574 ) was an Asturian ( northern region in the Iberian Peninsula ) admiral and explorer, best remembered for founding St. Augustine, Florida in 1565.

* 17 February-St. Clair Augustine Mulholland, American Civil War officer ( born 1839 ).

‘ The faith of the sacraments ,’ saith St. Augustine, ‘ justifies, and not the sacrament .’ And Origen saith, ‘ He ( Christ ) is the priest and the propitiation, and the sacrifice ; and that propitiation comes to every one by way of faith .’ And, therefore, agreeably hereunto, we say that the sacraments of Christ do not profit the living without faith ” ( II. 17 ).

* Sir Timothy Augustine Coghlan 1905 – 1915, 1916 – 17, 1920 – 1925

Along with other artists, he completed a series of paintings ( Quadroni of St. Charles ) of the life of St. Charles Borromeo for the Duomo of Milan, an altarpiece with the Baptism of St. Augustine for San Marco ( Milan ), and a Mass of St. Gregory for the Basilica of San Vittore in Varese ( 1615 – 17 ).