by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
The memory of these two friars takes us back to the early days of the Augustinian Order. At the Grand Union of 1256 Pope Alexander IV brought together a number of smaller, mainly eremitical groups using the Rule of St. Augustine to form the new Augustinian Order and...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
The most popular of all the Augustinian Saints was born about 1377 in the village of Roccaporena near what was then the important city of Cascia in the mountainous area of Umbria in central Italy. Her elderly parents, Antonio and Amata Lotti, christened their only...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
William was born around 1300 in Toulouse and joined the Augustinians there at a time of rapid growth of the Order through southern France. He became a noted popular preacher and lived a life of deep prayer and penance. He died on 18th May, 1369. His cult was confirmed...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Because of the great hostility between the Woman and the Serpent, which, by the decree of God, runs through human history from its very origins ( Genesis 3, 1-6, 23-15 ) to the end of time ( Apocalypse 12, 1-3, 7 – 12. 17 ), the Blessed Virgin Mary incessantly...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
We remember together two of the men most closely associated with Augustine of Hippo. Like Augustine, Alypius was a native of Thagaste in Roman North Africa (today Souk-Ahras in Algeria) where his parents were «leading citizens», according to Augustine in...
