With a marvellous conversion out of sexual immorality, Augustine became one of the church's greatest theologians, profoundly influencing both Luther and Calvin.
Augustine was born in what we now call eastern Algeria. The town was 60 miles inland and the Romans named it Tagaste.
His father was Patricius, a pagan, and his mother, Monica, a keen Christian, probably converted after marriage, and the home was middle-class. There were three children and Augustine was almost certainly born last, in 354AD.
