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28 August. 1662 Book of Common Prayer: St. Augustine the Greater—Bishop of Hippo

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28 August.   1662 Book of Common Prayer:   St. Augustine the Greater—Bishop of Hippo. Mendelson, Michael. "Saint Augustine." The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2012 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.).   12 Nov 2010. http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2012/entries/augustine/ .   Accessed 27 Aug 2014. Saint Augustine Aurelius Augustinus [more commonly “St. Augustine of Hippo,” often simply “Augustine”] (354–430 C.E.): rhetor , Christian Neoplatonist, North African Bishop, Doctor of the Roman Catholic Church. One of the decisive developments in the western philosophical tradition was the eventually widespread merging of the Greek philosophical tradition and the Judeo-Christian religious and scriptural traditions. Augustine is one of the main figures through and by whom this merging was accomplished. He is, as well, one of the towering figures of medieval philosophy whose authority and thought came to exert a pervasive and enduring influence well into the mode