25" x 19½"
Oil on Canvas
$3500
Saint Augustine
St. Augustine of Hippo is the patron of brewers because of his conversion from a former life of loose living. Augustine cried out to God, "Why does not this hour put an end to my sins?" Just then he heard a child singing, "Take up and read!" Augustine picked up the book of the Letters of St. Paul and read the first passage his gaze fell on in which St. Paul says to put away all impurity and to live in imitation of Jesus. He was baptized, became a priest, became a bishop and became a famous Catholic writer. He became very devout and charitable, too. On the wall of his room he had the following sentence written in large letters: "Here we do not speak evil of anyone." St. Augustine overcame strong heresies, practiced great poverty and supported the poor, preached very often and prayed with great fervor right up until his death. His feast day is August 28th.
