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St. Augustine — He Knew the Truth for 15 Years and Ran From It Anyway
A man is lying under a fig tree in a garden in Milan. Weeping. Uncontrollably. He is thirty-two years old — one of the most brilliant minds in the Roman Empire.
And he has been running from this moment for fifteen years.
In this episode of Everyday Saints, host John O'Connor tells the real story of St. Augustine of Hippo — one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Western civilization, and one of the most relentlessly honest human beings who ever put words on a page. A man who knew the truth, constructed every possible reason to avoid it, and finally — in a garden, hearing a…
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