The Impact of St. Augustine
Perhaps the first and most obvious thing to be said about St. Augustine, the span of whose life was close to eighty years—from A.D. 354 to 430—is that he was one of only a handful of truly foundational figures of the Christian West. Not only does he stand in the company of men like Benedict, who ignited a great monastic fire in the West, or Gregory the Great, who kept it blazing while caring for…