The Example of a Woman Sexual Renunciation and Augustine's Conversion to Christianity in 386

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November 21, 2012

 

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And you transformed her mourning into a joy more abundant than she had wished and much dearer and more chaste than that of having grandchildren of my flesh. These are the words that conclude Bk. 8 of the Confessions, where Augustine recounts the dramatic final moments of his conversion to Christianity...
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In these words he speaks about God converting him "in such a way" that the varied desires and confusing interests that gathered around him in Milan were shed like old garments never to be taken up again. Augustine also describes his mother's new joy, and relates for the first time that in Monnica's attempts for her son's marriage we must see not only her desire for his conversion but even the domestic joys of seeing Augustine's offspring...
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