Augustine of Hippo

Ambrose's preaching on scripture in Milan removed the intellectual objections that had kept Augustine from the Nicene faith, and Ambrose baptized him at the Easter vigil of 387.

This source names Augustine of Hippo directly: "A Wikipedia article on Augustine of Hippo, the bishop and theologian whose Confessions and City of God shaped Western Christian thought."

Augustine of Hippo studied rhetoric in Carthage as a young man before his conversion.

This source names Augustine of Hippo directly: "St. Augustine, founded by Spanish Catholics in 1565, is the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the continental United States and its mission church predates Jamestown and Plymouth..."

This source names Augustine of Hippo directly: "of Saint Anthony flanked by Saints Augustine and Jerome, itself flanked by painted panels of Saint Anthony's temptation by demons and his meeting with Saint Paul in the desert."

Corresponded for years with Augustine of Hippo over Jerome's Hebrew-based translation method and their reading of Galatians 2; the exchange was never fully resolved between them.

Augustine of Hippo was a Manichaean Hearer for nine years before his conversion, and afterwards wrote the most effective refutations the religion faced in the Latin west.

This source names Augustine of Hippo directly: "that a number of thoughtful Romans, Augustine of Hippo among the most famous, found compelling for a time before rejecting it."

This source names Augustine of Hippo directly: "Grace, De Natura et Gratia, written by Augustine of Hippo around 415, is Augustine's own polemical treatise against Pelagius, arguing that human nature, wounded by original sin, cannot achieve..."

This source names Augustine of Hippo directly: "fourth century through the age of Augustine of Hippo in the early fifth, treating in particular detail the circumcellions, bands of rural laborers and the itinerant poor who carried out attacks on..."

This source names Augustine of Hippo directly: "liturgy and, by his own account, moved Augustine of Hippo toward baptism."

This source names Augustine of Hippo directly: "Augustine of Hippo's The City of God is a primary foundational theological and philosophical text; the atlas records no publisher and no exact publication year because it survives through manuscript..."

This source names Augustine directly: "Saint Jerome, Saint Ambrose and Saint Augustine, gather in discussion around an altar bearing a monstrance that displays the consecrated host."

This source names Augustine of Hippo directly: "Pope Gregory the Great sent Augustine, prior of a Roman monastery, to the Kingdom of Kent, a deliberate choice since King Aethelberht held influence over neighbouring Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and was..."

This source names Augustine of Hippo directly: "The Rule of Saint Augustine, in Raymond Canning's translation published by Augustinian Press in 1986, renders Augustine of Hippo's own monastic rule, one of the oldest and most influential rules..."

Augustine set the terms the later tradition worked from, chiefly in the City of God and against the Manichaeans.

The drawing's directly named subject per the museum's own title, showing Augustine mitred as a bishop among clouds and angels, matching the standard bishop-and-book iconography the corroborating Wikipedia record independently describes for him.

Augustine's long campaign against the Donatists is the main reason their case is remembered, and it is remembered in his words rather than in their own.

Augustine of Hippo is the system's founding and defining thinker.