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"Augustine’s qualities are symbolised through the House crest: the staff represents his role as a shepherd guiding the faithful, the quill signifies his extensive writings, the flame represents his deep love for God, and the focus on community. Augustine House’s motto is “Love measures deeds,” emphasising the importance of love as a criterion for evaluating actions and intentions (Villanova College, 2024).
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"The mascot for Augustine House is the Hippo, named after Augustine’s place of birth, Hippo Regius. Hippos are known for their generosity and concern for the well-being of those around them" (Villanova College, 2024).
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- St Augustine" ... Augustine is remarkable for what he did and extraordinary for what he wrote. If none of his written works had survived, he would still have been a figure to be reckoned with, but his stature would have been more nearly that of some of his contemporaries ... "
- Saint Augustine"Aurelius Augustine was born in 354 at Tagaste, Algeria, in North Africa, the son of Patricius, a non-believer, and his devout Catholic wife, Monica. Though he was enrolled as a catechumen by his mother when he was a boy, Augustine's baptism was deferred to a later time in accordance with the prevailing custom. From his earliest years, Augustine possessed an inquisitive mind and an attractive personality ... "
- Out Where the Dead Men Lie" ... the coast was a place where different god-worship competed for followers but the number of Christians was increasing ... "
- Augustine and the Trials of Fallen Friendship" ... One of the most famous of Augustine’s stories about the dangers of fallen friendship is his account in book 2 of the Confessions of the time he and some friends stole pears from his neighbor’s pear tree. What especially troubled him in retrospect about what might have seemed a relatively harmless bit of adolescent tomfoolery was that there was no reason for what they did. They did not really want the fruit ... "
- Augustine's Conversions"The book changed my feelings and prayers, and entirely altered my purposes and desires. Suddenly all I had hoped in I saw as worthless ... I had begun that journey upwards by which I was to return to you." (Confessions 3.4)
- Saint Augustine of Hippo"One night when 16 with his friends he robs a neighbour's pear tree of its fruit, for the simple thrill of doing wrong, and throws the pears to pigs ... "
- Saint Augustine of Hippo | Hearts on Fire"Augustine was born in 354, in Tagaste (Algeria), North Africa, the son of Patricius, a non-believer, and his devout Catholic wife, Monica ... "
- Saint Augustine and the Modern Age"Augustine's life constitutes what is probably one of the most bewildering, thorough and fruitful conversions in the history of Christendom ... "
- John Hutchinson OSA"John Hutchinson parallels with James Alypius Goold OSA as an Augustinian bishop who pioneered the establishment of an Australian diocese, although Hutchinson in Cooktown (Cairns) began thirty-six years after Goold had done so, albeit in the less populated and more rugged tropical north of Queensland, Australia ... "