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The Creed of Adeodatus encapsulates four significant values for house members. The tear symbolises vulnerability, the group represents the importance of community, his name, “The Gift of God,” signifies the present, and the brain embodies his intellect. The house’s motto, ‘Live with purpose, Ignite the Change,’ reflects the call to be the change they wish to see in the world" (Villanova College, 2024).
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"The Phoenix, symbolising Adeodatus’s rise as the first “fine young man” educated in the Augustinian tradition, serves as the house’s mascot" (Villanova College 2024).
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- Adeodatus"Adeodatus, the only-known son of Augustine (November 13, 354 - August 28, 430) [q.v.; cf. Q 4.342-462], bishop of Hippo, was born while his father was a student at Carthage to the first of the several mistresses with whom Augustine lived ... "
- Augustine the parent"... In the year 371 at the age of seventeen years Augustine left home in Tagaste once again to study at Carthage. He also he entered into a stable relationship with a woman whom he came to love dearly but whose name we do not know. In the year 372, his unnamed concubine bore him a son, Adeodatus, which in Latin means "given by God." They lived in Carthage until the year 374, when they returned to Thagaste, the place of birth of Augustine ... "
- The man and boy in the statues" ... Augustine’s father, Patrick, died when Augustine was 17. The son’s recollections of the father in the Confessions are mostly a litany of disappointments ... "
- James Alypius Goold OSAArchbishop Goold OSA is the modern patron for Alypius House. "Bishop (later Archbishop) James Alypius Goold O.S.A. was the first Catholic bishop in Melbourne from 1848 to 1886. He came to Australia to serve for ten years, and had no expectation of becoming a bishop and of spending the rest of his life there ... "
- James Alypius Goold | National Portrait Gallery"James Alipius Goold (1812-1886), first Catholic bishop and archbishop of Melbourne, volunteered for service in New South Wales having studied in Rome and Perugia. He arrived in Sydney in early 1838, three years after his ordination ... "