The Garden in Milan
In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old professor of rhetoric sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Genesis 3:9-15, 20.
In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old professor of rhetoric sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent years running from the God who pursued him — hiding behind Manichaean philosophy, academic ambition, and a mistress he could not release. His mother Monica had prayed and wept for him for nearly two decades.…
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