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 a book of philosophy, in which he was taught to despise the vanities of the world. And because that book pleased him well, he began to be sorry that the name of Jesu Christ, which he had learned of his mother, was not therein. And his mother wept oft, and enforced her much to bring him to the verity of the faith.

And as it is read in the book of Confessions, she was in a place much heavy, and herthought that a fair young man was tofore her, that enquired of her the cause of her heaviness, and she said: 'I weep here the loss of my son Austin'; and he answered: 'Be thou sure, for where thou art he is.' And she saw her son beside her. And when she had told this to Austin, he said to his mother: ’Thou art deceived, mother, it was not said so but: Where that I am thou art'; and she said contrary: ’Son, it was not said so to me, but where I am thou art.' And then the mother ententively prayed and required a bishop instantly that he would pray for her son Augustin. And he, being overcome, said to her by the voice of a prophet: ’Go thy way surely; for a son of so many tears may not by possibility perish.'

And when he had certain years taught rhetoric in Carthage he came to Rome secretly, without the knowledge of his mother, and assembled there many disciples. And his mother had followed him unto the gate to make him abide, or else that she should go with him; and he abode that night, but he departed secretly on the morn. And when she apperceived it, she replenished the ears of our Lord with