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Contents.
# Book 3½.
AUGUSTINE DETERMINES TO ABANDON THE PROFESSION OF RHETORIC, AND RETIRES TO CASSIACUM TO PREPARE FOR HOLY BAPTISM, WHICH HE RECEIVES AFTER THE VINTAGE VACATION WITH ALYPIUS AND ADEODATUS. HE DETERMINES WITH HIS FRIENDS TO RETURN TO AFRICA; AND JOURNEYS AS FAR AS TO OSTIA WITH THEM AND WITH HIS MOTHER MONICA. HE DESCRIBES HER EARLY LIFE AND CHARACTER; HER INFLUENCE OVER HER HUSBAND; HER JOY IN HIS CONVERSION; HER DEATH AND BURIAL AT OSTIA, IN AUGUSTINE’S THIRTY-THIRD YEAR.
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| I. He praises God for this goodness in effecting his conversion | 156 |
| II. He resolves to abandon his Rhetoric Professorship after the Vintage Vacation, which was at hand | 157 |
| III. Verecundus, though not yet a Christian, offers his country house for a time, though sorry that the conversion of Augustine and Alypius will deprive him of their companionship; Nebridius is glad to hear of it, though himself not yet converted | 159 |
| IV. At Cassiacum after resigning his professorship he finds great comfort in the Psalms. He dwells much upon Psalm iv. He experiences great pain, from which God’s mercy set him free | 160 |
| V. S. Ambrose advises him to study the prophecies of Isaiah, which, as yet, were too hard for him | 164 |
| VI. His baptism with Alypius and Adeodatus. The character of Adeodatus | 165 |
| VII. The rise of chanting at Milan. The Arian persecution under Justina stayed upon the discovery of the bodies of SS. Gervasius and Protasius | 166 |
| VIII. He relates the incidents of his mother’s early life and education | 167 |
| IX. The married life of Monica; her discretion and wifely duty | 169 |
| X. A conversation upon the happiness of the Saints with Monica at Ostia | 171 |
| XI. His mother’s death | 174 |
| XII. His deep sorrow, and how he restrained it. His mother’s burial, and the offering for her of the Holy Sacrifice | 176 |
| XIII. He prays for his mother, and requests for her the prayers of such as shall read “his Confessions” | 178 |
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