Contents – Book VI Book VI Chapter I His mother having followed him to Milan, declares that she will not die before her son shall...
BOOK SIX Turmoil in the twenties. Monica follows Augustine to Milan and finds him a catechumen in the Catholic Church. Both admire Ambrose but Augustine...
BOOK SIX CHAPTER II 2. So also my mother brought to certain oratories, erected in the memory of the saints, offerings of porridge, bread, and...
BOOK SIX CHAPTER III 3. Nor had I come yet to groan in my prayers that thou wouldst help me. My mind was wholly intent...
BOOK SIX CHAPTER IV 5. Since I could not then understand how this image of thine could subsist, I should have knocked on the door...
BOOK SIX CHAPTER V 7. Still, from this time forward, I began to prefer the Catholic doctrine. I felt that it was with moderation and...
BOOK SIX CHAPTER VI 9. I was still eagerly aspiring to honors, money, and matrimony; and thou didst mock me. In pursuit of these ambitions...
BOOK SIX CHAPTER VII 11. Those of us who were living like friends together used to bemoan our lot in our common talk; but I...
BOOK SIX CHAPTER VIII 13. He had gone on to Rome before me to study law–which was the worldly way which his parents were forever...
BOOK SIX CHAPTER IX 14. But this was all being stored up in his memory as medicine for the future. So also was that other...
BOOK SIX CHAPTER X 16. I found him at Rome, and he was bound to me with the strongest possible ties, and he went with...
BOOK SIX CHAPTER XI 18. And I especially puzzled and wondered when I remembered how long a time had passed since my nineteenth year, in...
BOOK SIX CHAPTER XII 21. Actually, it was Alypius who prevented me from marrying, urging that if I did so it would not be possible...
BOOK SIX CHAPTER XIII 23. Active efforts were made to get me a wife. I wooed; I was engaged; and my mother took the greatest...
BOOK SIX CHAPTER XIV 24. Many in my band of friends, consulting about and abhorring the turbulent vexations of human life, had often considered and...
BOOK SIX CHAPTER XV 25. Meanwhile my sins were being multiplied. My mistress was torn from my side as an impediment to my marriage, and...
BOOK SIX CHAPTER XVI 26. Thine be the praise; unto thee be the glory, O Fountain of mercies. I became more wretched and thou didst...
BOOK SIX Turmoil in the twenties. Monica follows Augustine to Milan and finds him a catechumen in the Catholic Church. Both admire Ambrose but Augustine...
