Saint Augustine: Episode Two
The Saints
The Merry Beggars
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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🗺️ Saint Augustine - Episode Two: The Head and the Heart
Carthage. 373 A.D. Two years after leaving Thagaste, Augustine revels in the decadent pleasures of his new home. His unexpected meeting with Aurora leads him further astray. But when the writings of Cicero and Virgil arouse his deep longing for beauty and truth, he finds himself questioning everything! Including his wayward life.
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Saint Augustine teaches us lessons of humility, perseverance, and the transformative power of grace. Despite his early years spent in sensual pursuits and intellectual pride, his restless heart yearned for truth. His mother’s unwavering prayers and his own searching spirit ultimately led him to surrender in humility to God’s call. In his moment of conversion, Augustine’s story reminds us that no soul is beyond redemption and that true wisdom begins in humility before God.
This series contains moments of intensity and fear. Augustine struggles with his passionate nature and against carnal pleasures. He is depicted in a non-Christian relationship, with their child. A gladiator fight can be overheard. Voices are raised in argument. A character dies of illness. A boy is separated from his mother. A government persecution of the church is portrayed.
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| 0:08.7 | Each day this Lent, discover the men and women who gave their hearts to God, |
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| 0:33.9 | Carthage, 373 AD. |
| 0:45.3 | Two years after leaving Tagaste, Augustine revels in the decadent pleasures of his new home. His unexpected meeting with Aurora leads him further astray. |
| 0:49.3 | But when the writings of Cicero and Virgil arouse his deep longing for beauty and truth, |
| 0:56.4 | he questions everything, including his wayward life. |
| 1:02.5 | The Saints. Adventures of Faith and Courage. |
| 1:07.2 | St. Augustine. |
| 1:09.1 | Episode 2, The Head and the Heart. |
| 1:12.9 | Listen to all the episodes and discover new shows at the saintspodcast.com. |
| 1:32.1 | You are the life of souls, O Lord. |
| 1:36.7 | Deep within, I longed for you. |
| 1:40.1 | But I was too in love with love, |
| 1:45.0 | and I sought to fulfill my desire with lustful pleasures. Yet somehow I did fall in love and was loved in return. |
| 1:52.0 | But, oh God of mercy, in your goodness, you would not let my heart find rest in tainted things. But for me, I must depart and learn to sing my verse to the shepherd's pipe. |
| 2:24.2 | I know well that it is better to suffer in the woods and to carve my love upon tender tree trunks. |
| 2:32.3 | For as they grow, you, my love, will grow with them. |
| 2:39.1 | Love conquers all. Let us yield to love. |
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