What St. Augustine Did to Avoid Gossip and Foul Language in His Home, by Abel Camasca

Lima Newsroom, Aug 28, 2024 / 15:53 pm – St. Augustine, whose feast day is (Aug. 28), had an aversion for gossip to the extent he even placed a special notice in his house so that he and those who visited him would avoid this evil. Some bishops didn’t pay attention, and this is what happened.

In the Spanish-language book “Works of St. Augustine, Volume I” from the Library of Christian Authors, there is an ancient biography of this saint written by his disciple St. Possidius, considered by the Augustinians as “the first biographer of the bishop of Hippo.”

St. Possidius describes that St. Augustine’s clothes, shoes, and other household items “were modest and appropriate: neither too nice nor too base, because these things are often a reason for boasting or abjection [humiliation] for men, because they did not seek the interests of Jesus Christ but their own.” …

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