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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Saint Augustine

Saint Augustine
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Confessions: Books 6 - 8

Book VI

Summary.

When Augustine had taught as a professor of rhetoric in Milan for a short
while, his mother Monica followed him to the city. Travelling by land and
sea, she felt perfectly secure under the protection of God. In fact, when
storms threatened the ship she comforted and reassured the sailors while
other passengers, in panic, solicited advise from the selfsame sailors.
Arriving in Milan, she was not particularly surprised to find her son a
catechumen. She insisted that she would witness his total conversion before
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