Twenty One Saints Everyone Must Know VI - IV
XXI - XIX Saints Gregory the Great, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp XVIII - XIV Saints Jerome, John Chrysostom, Elijah XV - XIII Saints Therese of Lisieux, Teresia Benedicta, Teresa of Avila XII - X Saints John of the Cross, Benedict of Nursia, Thomas Aquinas IX - VII Saints Sultana Mahdokht, St. Dominic, St. Monica St. Augustine of Hippo 6-St. Augustine (354 AD – 430 AD) [Doctor of the Church] The few lines I will write here will do a great injustice to a man like St. Augustine because I can never describe the magnitude of the influence he has had on the entire development of human thought. He is a Doctor of the Church, and his contributions to the doctrine of the Catholic faith are too numerous to be counted. St. Augustine is born to a Christian mother, St. Monica, and a non-believing father who is later baptized on his deathbed. Throughout his life, he embraces and repudiates various philosophies. In his late teens, he is drawn to the Manichean heresy, a sect that...