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According to Henry Chadwick in his volume entitled "The Early Church," Augustine by the range and profundity of his mind came to tower not only over all his immediate contemporaries but over the subsequent development of Western Christendom" 1 His prodigious influence on the history of the Christian church can be discerned in both Catholicism and

Augustine of hippo young- Although Augustine's father, who died while his son was still in his early teens, had not been a practising Christian, the young man was brought up a Catholic by his mother, Monica In his late teens, he formed a faithful longterm relationship with a young Catholic woman from a neighbouring town, and their son, Adeodatus (meaning 'gift of St Augustine of Hippo (AD 354 430) was an AlgerianRoman philosopher and theologian of the late Roman / early Medieval period He is one of the most important early figures in the development of Western Christianity, and was a major figure in bringing Christianity to dominance in the previously pagan Roman Empire