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  Tagaste Monastery Shield - Who We Are - TagasteMonastery.org
The mountain in the base suggests Tagaste (modern Souk Ahras in Algeria), the small town in North Africa where St. Augustine was born in the year 354.
The African type of yew tree, with its short, thick trunk, also represents physical features of Augustine's birthplace, which was likewise the site of his first religious community, established in the year 388.
The Shield of Tagaste Monastery was commissioned by Mrs.
www.tagastemonastery.org /whoweare_shield.asp   (748 words)

  
  Life of St. Augustine of Hippo
Augustine was born at Tagaste on 13 November, 354.
Tagaste, now Souk-Ahras, about 60 miles from Bona (ancient Hippo-Regius), was at that time a small free city of proconsular Numidia which had recently been converted from Donatism.
But, unfortunately, it required several months to collect the necessary means, and Augustine had to spend his sixteenth year at Tagaste in an idleness which was fatal to his virtue; he gave himself up to pleasure with all the vehemence of an ardent nature.
www.heiligenlexikon.de /CatholicEncyclopedia/Augustinus.html   (4693 words)

  
 AUGUSTINE - LoveToKnow Article on AUGUSTINE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
His father, Patricius, was a burgess of Tagaste and still a c igan at the time of his sons birth.
His mother, Monica, was c)t only a Christian, but a woman of the most tender and devoted c ety, whose beautiful faith and enthusiasm and patient prayer for c)th her husband and son (at length crowned with success in both o Ises) have made her a type of womanly saintliness for all ages.
Shortly before the time of his baptism, he was occu~d with the question of the immortality of the soul (De immorit ate animae), and in Rome and at Tagaste he was still engaged th philosophical problems, as is evidenced by the writings De antitate animae and De magistro.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AU/AUGUSTINE.htm   (4056 words)

  
 Augustine in Algeria: site visits
Tagaste's archaeological remains have never been excavated and have indeed probably been destructively overbuilt, but Madauros survives because the present-day community is built at about at two-mile distance from the ancient site, which is quite isolated and unspoiled.
The valley of the Medjerda remains relatively lush and fertile (as in this panoramic view of Tagaste countryside [large and slow to load, taken from a book we were given at the conference]), and the grain elevators remained a feature of the landscape.
The valley is steep enough that the town of Tagaste stayed up from the valley bottom on the north side, so you descend first from Tagaste further, then rise again on the other side.
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /jod/algeria/algeria-sitevisits.html   (5590 words)

  
 About St
Widow; born of Christian parents at Tagaste, North Africa, in 333; died at Ostia, near Rome, in 387.
There was of course a gulf between husband and wife; her almsdeeds and her habits of prayer annoyed him, but it is said that he always held her in a sort of reverence.
Monica was not the only matron of Tagaste whose married life was unhappy, but, by her sweetness and patience, she was able to exercise a veritable apostolate amongst the wives and mothers of her native town; they knew that she suffered as they did, and her words and example had a proportionate effect.
www.smsindy.org /stmonica.htm   (777 words)

  
 Augustine's Life
Augustine was born in the town of Tagaste in the Roman Province of Numidia in North Africa in the year 354.
The town of Tagaste (the present Souk-Ahras in Algeria) was situated in the north-east highlands of Numidia, some sixty miles from Hippo Regius (the present Annaba [Bone]) the sea-side city where Augustine was to spend the last 40 years of his life.
The young Augustine quickly outgrew the schools in Tagaste and, with the financial support of a family friend (Romanianus), he was shipped off to the neighboring town of Madauros to study grammar and literature.
www41.homepage.villanova.edu /donald.burt/augustine.htm   (4795 words)

  
 Augustine of Hippo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saint Augustine was born in 354 in Tagaste, a provincial Roman city in North Africa.
His education and early career was in philosophy and rhetoric, the art of persuasion and public speaking.
Upon his return to north Africa he created a monastic foundation at Tagaste for himself and a group of friends.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo   (1449 words)

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