Ambrose baptises Augustine
04/17/387 AD inducted
On Holy Saturday in 387, Augustine was baptized by Ambrose, along with his now fifteen-year-old son and a friend. He had put aside his most recent mistress and broken off his engagement, intending to return to Thagaste to found a monastic community there. Monica accompanied the three of them as far as Ostia on the Tyrrhenian seacoast, where she died before they could set sail
"And so we were baptised .... What tears I shed in your hymns and canticles! How deeply was I moved by the voices of your sweet singing Church. Those voices flowed into my ears and the truth was distilled into my heart, which overflowed with my passionate devotion. Tears ran from my eyes and happy I was in those tears." Augistine, Confessions 9, 193-194
On Easter: From Ambrose (337-397; he was a bishop) we learn that as late as the year 387 Easter was observed in present day France on March 21, in Italy on April 18, and in Alexandria, Egypt on April 25. Eventually, though, Easter was celebrated on the same date: the first Sunday after the first full moon after March 21. → Study the Church, Dating of Easter: Why does it keep moving?
Subjects Who or What inducted?
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Ambrose (Aurelius Ambrosius) One of its four traditio...
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Augustine of Hippo (Saint Augustine, Augustinus) The bishop of Hippo Regi... -
Adeodatus Adeodatus ("Gift of God"...
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