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He had already separated from the woman with whom he had lived for many years and who bore him a son, and was preparing for marriage with another, but his conversion, he felt, required that he abandon altogether any possibility of marriage and commit himself instead to a life of chastity as a celibate 'servant of God'. Following baptism in Milan in , together with his son and some friends, he returned with them to his hometown of Tagaste to begin a monastic life.

Against his personal wishes, he was ordained priest in Hippo in , and became bishop of that See in , all the while continuing in his monastic lifestyle. Augustine was a prolific writer, an accomplished preacher, a monastic leader, a theologian, pastor, contemplative, and mystic.

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