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To: nihil who wrote (24311)	5/13/1999 12:05:00 AM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

An eremite! You sent me running to the big unabridged for that one. I would have suspected that the Augustinians weren't being true to Augustine. Augustine (pronounced Ah-GUS-tin, according to old John Warwick Montgomery) came out of the somewhat hedonistic world of the Manichees, and didn't become an ascetic from what I can see. The Reformers were a far more spartan bunch than their confreres at the church of Rome. You can even see it in their architecture. Rome was building gothic cathedrals while the reformers opted for very simple buildings. The Indulgences that Luther preached against were in fact being collected to finance the building of St Paul's. The Reformation helped bring the era of cathedral building to a close by drying up this source of funding. I found an autobiography of St Patrick (Confessio) online. X could compare this directly with Augustine's own Confessions.