The Voice in the Milan Garden
In the summer of 386 AD, Augustine sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden, torn between the life he had been living...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 1 Samuel 3:1-10.
In the summer of 386 AD, Augustine sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden, torn between the life he had been living and the God who had been pursuing him for years. He had heard the whisper before — through his mother Monica's relentless prayers, through Ambrose's sermons in the cathedral, through the conversion stories of friends who had surrendered everything.…
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