Augustine

"Confessions" by St. Augustine tells us the timeless story of an intellectual quest that ends in orthodoxy.

Augustine was born in North Africa.

Sami grew up in a small Florida town called Saint Augustine.

St. Augustine is a Christian philosopher and theologian of Berber origin.

Saint Augustine was another Berber of great relevance to world history.

“He who does not know cannot know,” said Saint Augustine (Aurelius Augustinus).

"He who does not feel cannot know," said St. Augustine.

Augustine was born at Thagaste, a city of Numidia, in the year 354.

An American alligator chomps a snowy egret at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park in Florida.

The ordo amoris can be conceptualized as a series of concentric circles radiating outward from ourselves, beginning with loving God, who is, as Augustine put it, “closer to us than we are to ourselves,” and ending with loving the rest of the world outside our own country.