Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church history.

On this episode, we are returning to our good friend Augustine, but we are going to look at Augustine through the eyes of his friend,

Olypius. Augustine tells us a little bit about Olypius in the Confessions.

He writes,

Olippius came from my own town.

That's his hometown of the Gast, and that of course is in Northern Africa,

and his people were one of the leading families.

He was younger than I was and had been a student of mine,

both in our own town when I first began to teach,

and later on at Carthage.

He was greatly attached to me

because he thought that I was a good and learned man,

and I was fond of him.

Because although he was still young,

it was quite clear that he had much natural disposition

to goodness. Well, Olympias was about six years younger than Augustine. Augustine was born in

354, so Olympius was born around 360. He was Augustine student, and they went to Carthage together, and then they went from

Carthage to Rome together. Of course, in Rome, Augustine was a teacher and rhetorician. And from what

we understand, Olympias had some kind of government position where he was entrusted with significant

money and distributed funds.

And so we learn a little bit about his character, that he's trustworthy, and as Augustine will describe him in the confessions, he has integrity.

Well, Augustine and Elypius left Rome for Milan.

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