Does anybody know anything about the woman with whom Augustine had his son? Like, maybe her name? LOL And what happened to her after he split with her?
So far as I know, history has no record of her name. But we do know she was from Carthage, that she stayed 15 years with Augustine, and that he dumped her at the behest of his mother for an arranged marriage to an underage heiress. As some point during the two years of waiting for the heiress to turn 12 so she could marry, something - most probably involving advice from Alypius of Thagaste - went wrong. Whatever it was, Augustine decided to become a priest and the unnamed lover left her son with his father and went back home to Carthage to live out her days in penance at a monastery.
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So far as I know, history has no record of her name. But we do know she was from Carthage, that she stayed 15 years with Augustine, and that he dumped her at the behest of his mother for an arranged marriage to an underage heiress. As some point during the two years of waiting for the heiress to turn 12 so she could marry, something - most probably involving advice from Alypius of Thagaste - went wrong. Whatever it was, Augustine decided to become a priest and the unnamed lover left her son with his father and went back home to Carthage to live out her days in penance at a monastery.