Foul was the evil, and I loved it.ģ) What other sins did he commit in youth?ġ0) Is it true that Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has a special attachment to the thought of St. Behold, now let my heart tell you what it looked for there, that I should be evil without purpose and that there should be no cause for my evil but evil itself. Behold my heart, O Lord, behold my heart upon which you had mercy in the depths of the pit. We took great loads of fruit from it, not for our own eating, but rather to throw it to the pigs even if we did eat a little of it, we did this to do what pleased us for the reason that it was forbidden. Late one night - to which hour, according to our pestilential custom, we had kept up our street games - a group of very bad youngsters set out to shake down and rob this tree. In his spiritual autobiography, the Confessions, he described the incident: In a garden nearby to our vineyard there was a pear tree, loaded with fruit that was desirable neither in appearance nor in taste. This made a profound impression on him and he later wrote about and regretted it. Latin seems to have been his first language.Īs a boy he became conscious of sin in a special way when he participated in a pointless act of theft. He was of mixed-race ancestry, with ancestors including Phoenicians, Berbers, and Latins. Monica - was a Christian and raised Augustine in the faith, though he was not baptized until he was an adult.
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