TOPIC. CONSPECTUS OF ST.

AUGUSTINE
(Childhood – Secular Teacher )

VALUES INTEGRATION: Conversion to Christianity, Grace and Free

Will, Faith or religion and education
At the end of this lesson, the students will be
able to:

 discuss the childhood of Saint Augustine

related to education, and religious life;
 recognize the value and significance of the life,
work and teachings of Saint Augustine;
 share the teaching of Saint Augustine to
family, friends and associates.
 Activity:
Picture Analysis:

Guide Questions:
1. Describe each picture orally.
2. What is the significance of birth for you?
INPUT / DEEPENING:
CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH
(Thagaste – Madaura – Thagaste – Carthage)

Nov. 13, 354

Born at Thagaste (Souk-Ahras, Algeria), North Africa
365 - 369
Studied Grammar at Madaura (CF II,3,5);
Augustine was 11-15 yrs. old
369 - 370
Spent a year in idleness at Thagaste (pear theft)
(CF II,3,6)[Augustine was 15 yrs. old]
371
Studied in Carthage; Patricius died;
Augustine was 17 yrs. Old
371 - 372
Takes concubine; birth of Adeodatus;
Augustine was 18 yrs. old
370 - 373
Studied Rhetoric at Carthage (CF II,3,5)
 373 Conversion to philosophy through reading Cicero’s
HORTENSIUS (CF III,4,7); Soliloquies I,17; The Happy Life,
4) (Augustine was 19 yrs. old)
Enrolled as a Hearer in the sect of the Manicheans (CF III,6,10)

SECULAR TEACHER
(Carthage – Rome – Milan)
373 - 374 Taught Grammar at Thagaste (CF IV,4,7)
(Augustine 19 yrs. old)
374 - 383 Taught Rhetoric at Carthage (CF V,7,13)
Wrote ON THE FAIR AND THE FITTING
(De Pulchro et Apto) (CF IV,13,20) [This book
was lost.]
Read Aristotle’s CATEGORIES
 383
Introduced to the Manichean Bishop Faustus
(CF V,3,3) (Augustine was 29 yrs. old)
383 - 384
Taught Rhetoric in Rome (CF V,8,14)
(Augustine was 29 yrs. old)
384
(autumn)
Appointed public teacher of Rhetoric in Milan
(Augustine was 30 yrs. old) (CF V,13,23)
385
Monica arrives in Milan; Meets Ambrose
SYNTHESIS/ VALUES INTEGRATION:

“ YOU HAVE MADE US FOR YOURSELF, O LORD, AND OUR HEARTS

ARE RESTLESS UNTIL THEY REST IN YOU.”

“ BECAUSE GOD HAS MADE US FOR HIMSELF, OUR HEARTS ARE

RESTLESS UNTIL THEY REST IN HIM”

Guide Questions:

1. Cite insights about the two quotes of Augustine.

2. Cite some personal experienced similar to Augustine’s
childhood journey.
EVALUATION/ ASSESSMENT:

Make a summary in your portal online about Augustine’s

childhood to his secular life.

ENRICHMENT:

Search 3 quotes of Augustine about his search for God