St Augustine of Hippo (354-430) is considered to be the greatest of the Western Fathers of the Church. After a tumultuous, carnal, and worldly youth, albeit with great academic success, he converted to the Catholic Faith in his early thirties and quickly rose to be the most influential bishop and theologian of his age. All Christians today are deeply indebted to this great saint and to his voluminous writings on Sacred Scripture and theology. In fact almost every aspect of our modern world has been influenced by the thought of this monumental historical figure. If, indeed, in the words of...