Origin: Tagaste in Roman Numidia Historical identity: Latin-speaking Roman North African Affiliation: Late antique monastic or ascetic tradition
Life and work
North African bishop, philosopher and theologian whose writings on grace, memory, the Church and history shaped Western Christianity. His conversion followed a career teaching rhetoric in Africa, Rome and Milan.
Places and activities
Tagaste
354-c. 370; also later returns
Grew up in Roman Numidia; later returned as a teacher.
Years are historical biographical dates; an approximate label on a place record remains approximate.
Selected sourced locations; not a complete itinerary. All geographic coordinates are approximate.
Lifetime associations, not citizenship or a claim that all affiliations were held simultaneously.
Primary text or author archive. Its presence in the bibliography does not by itself support every map claim.
Recommended scholarly reading. Publisher/catalogue link; not used as consulted evidence for seed place claims.
Official modern biographical overview; not contemporary evidence for the saint's travels.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1907. Biographical article.
Oxford University Press, 2011. Recommended reference; consult the relevant entry and its bibliography. Not treated as read evidence for individual seed claims.