Saint Augustine Research Paper

Saints: Augustine, Francis, and Peter During Saint Augustine transition from infancy to boyhood, he questions if one day he opened his eyes and just woke up in boyhood. Augustine also questions if boyhood was growing while he was in his infancy. He also mentions that infancy did not leave him, so he questions what happened to it. Augustine says that his infancy did not stay with him, he says he is no longer an infant who lacks the ability to speak, but in fact he was a boy who could talk. While Saint Augustine was in school he suffered wretchedness. The school program taught right living in the point of view as a boy who must obey his mentors, so that the students will be able to excel in many ways. Augustine was sent to school to learn his letters and he found no point to it because he was poor, but also at the same time he was punished if he was too lazy with his education. Augustine mentions that the punishment for being lazy with your studies was taken for granted by the adults, because many people before them were put through the punishment. While Augustine was still in boyhood he began to pray to God asking him to be his aid and refuge. He would pray to God asking him to protect him from a beating, in which Augustine deserved for not doing the work needed to school that day. And although he said that God did not listen to his prayer request, God just said "I know you might not like this now but in the future you are going to understand why I am saying no to your request, you will grow in me and you will help shape the face of Christianity in the future." Augustine was upset that he was embarrassed because he was being laughed at by his elders, including his own parents. Which he did not enjoy because he felt that it was very dreadful for him. Saint Francis had an interesting begin to his "ministry" (I know that is not the right word I cannot think of the word I really want to use at the moment). …show more content…
In the year 1206 Francis went to a bishop because his father wanted the money, in which Francis was accused of stealing, back. The bishop said that he wanted Francis to pay his father back the money even if he did not steal the money in the first place, in order for Francis to do good deeds. Francis striped himself completely naked, walked over to his father, and returned to him all of the clothing that his father had provided for him. Francis later says, "I no longer think of you as my father but only of our Father who is in heaven." You could tell that the Bishop/Pastor approved of this because he took of his cloak (or one of his garments), and covered Francis with it. Francis moved to the outskirts of town where the poor, and sick people live. Saint Francis tried living pleasing to the spirit and not to the flesh. Francis knew that living by the flesh would make him more human like, but he wanted to live a life pleasing to God so he would be nice to the spirit and would punish the flesh. The flesh does not only include lustful thought and action, but it includes all of the senses. Francis would put ashes in his food so he would not enjoy the food he was eating because if he did not that would have been giving pleasure to the flesh. One of the times when Francis had a lustful thought he stripped himself naked and jumped into a pile of snow, and he said that he never had …show more content…
Why do people worship Saint Francis when he would practice self-harm, and possibly and eating disorder too. If someone of his importance would be harming themselves and other things that Francis has done People would not be following him. I am going to explain the possible eating disorder, if you would look up the definition of an eating disorder it says "any of a range of psychological disorders characterized by abnormal or disturbed eating habits," Francis's abnormal/disturbed habit was putting ashes in his food so it would not be pleasing to him. People would probably send him to places where they monitor people with mental