Augustine -13/11/354 – 28/8/430 born in Thagaste (Souk Ahras, Algeria) Mother Monica a devout Christian and father Patricus a pagan who converts on his deathbed Describes robbing a pear tree at 16 “…it was not the pears that my unhappy soul desired. I had plenty of my own, better than those, and I only picked… Continue reading Augustine and a British heretic