by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Alonso was born on 15th October, 1500 in Oropesa in Toledo province in central Spain, son of Hernando and Maria. While he was still a child the family moved to Talavera de la Reina and then to the provincial capital, Toledo. The very devout son of a very religious...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Although from the dates of his life alone – 354 to 430 – Augustine might seem a figure from the distant past, remote from our own concerns today, closer inspection tells a different story. His influence on the Christian Church and on Western society...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Monica was born around the year 330 into a Christian family in Roman North Africa. She was given in marriage to Patrick, a pagan small farmer and minor town official in Thagaste, now Souk-Akras in eastern Algeria. In 354 their son Augustine was born and there were at...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
The first Augustinian Recollect priest to be canonised was born on 9th April, 1848 in the small town of Alfaro in Spain’s Rioja region. Felix, the town tailor and his wife Josefa Diaz had six children. It was a poor but devout family, typical of the time and place....
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Abbot Liberatus and six monks of the Augustinian–inspired monastery of Gafsa, the youngest of whom was Maximus, were imprisoned under the African Vandal king Huneric for refusing to abandon either their Catholic faith or their monastery. They were bludgeoned to...
