Daily Catholic Quote from St. Augustine of Hippo

by ICL Editor | December 28, 2013 7:00 am

“These then, whom Herod’s cruelty tore as sucklings from their mothers’ bosom, are justly hailed as ‘infant martyr flowers’; they were the Church’s first blossoms, matured by the frost of persecution during the cold winter of unbelief.” (St. Augustine of Hippo, Bishop, Confessor and Doctor of Grace)

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August 28 is the Memorial of St. Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 354 – 430)

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