Augustine was born in Tagaste, in northern Africa, the son of Patricius, a pagan Roman official. His mother, St. Monica, was a Christian, and she raised Augustine in the Faith. He went to Carthage to study law, turning instead to literary interests.
In his second Turning Point feature, Russell Shaw explores the life of St. Augustine, a headstrong, self-indulgent young man who became one of the most important Christian thinkers of all time and a saint. Shaw examines the story of Augustine’s conversion as