St. Augustine - Honolulu, Oahu, HI
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N 21° 16.415 W 157° 49.412
4Q E 622051 N 2352880
The statue of Augustine of Hippo is located to the left of Saint Augustine by the Sea Catholic Church facade on the Waikiki District of Honolulu, Oahu.
Waymark Code: WMRHY1
Location: Hawaii, United States
Date Posted: 06/24/2016
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The slightly larger than life-size statue depicts St. Augustine standing, wearing bishops' clothes and mitre hat and holding a book in his left hand, and something that looks like a fruit in his right hand.
"Augustine of Hippo, also known as Saint Augustine, is one of the most important and well-known theologians in the history of the Christian religion. Augustine has one of the most dramatic conversions ever in the Church, a change of belief and behavior, which led to his most influential written works, Confessions and the City of God.
Augustine was born in 354 in Thagaste (modern-day Algeria, North Africa) and died on August 28, 430 in Hippo. He was born Aurelius Augustine to a pagan father and devout Christian mother. Augustine was born with a brilliant mind and enjoyed academic success and worldly pleasures at Carthage, that is until he became restless for truth and virtue. Successively disappointed by Platonic philosophy and Manichaen theology, he found his rest in the God of Christianity at the age of 32. Ten years later, Augustine reluctantly became Bishop of Hippo." (
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