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u OMING up the walk from the Pennsy station, the student is confronted by the towering figure of St. Augustine holding in his hand a heart, the symbol of Christian love. This flaming heart in the hand of Augustine sig' nifies the dominant element of his life and of the lives of his followers, the Augustinian Fathers of Villanova. Augustine was bom in Northern Africa (modem Tunisia) in 354. His mother, Monica, prompted him in his ch ldhood towards the teaching of Christ but his father, the pagan Patricius, offset that influence by handing the boy over to the secular schools for his education. His mother continued to send up persistent prayers for his soul’s safety. Only after Augustine had wandered through the mazes of Manicheeism — a materialistic superstition — were her prayers answered. In Milan in Italy he met the bishop of that city, Ambrose, and from him learned the true way of life. By constant study, his mother's prayers, and the help of Ambrose he was diverted from his unhappy and unholy life to the pure path of Chastity and Truth. Ardently he pursued his new found Ideal. Baptized by Ambrose, he began to become Augustine the Saint. Returned to Africa, he established in his native town the monastic life which still flourishes throughout the world. At the insistence of his bishop and the people of Hippo he was ordained Priest. After five years of teaching and preaching and example, he was elevated to the See of Hippo as Bishop of his own people. He ruled over his flock untiringly for thirty'four years until his death in 430. At his death the Vandal hordes were even at the gates of Hippo, and when they triumphantly scattered the African Church they also unwittingly scattered Augustine’s ideals throughout Europe. The monasticism which he founded in Africa was spread to France and Spain and Italy. It flourished there until united by Papal authority under one head in 1256. Then it spread to England and to Ireland, and from Ireland after the long course of centuries it passed over to America. The first Augustinians came to Philadelphia in 1796 and in 1842 established a country place as a prospective Motherhouse and College at Villanova. They brought with them to lovely Eastern Pennsylvania the same devotion to ideals of Truth and Love which Augustine himself exemplified in Africa so many centuries ago. And the burning heart of the statue at the head of Pennsy path is the symbol of that devotion.
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16 BOOK I Containing the highlights in pic' ture of Villanovas one hundred years from the days when she was a small school on a converted farmland through all the periods of her growth till the days of her Centennial. BOOK II ................. 74 Showing the Villanova of Today —much changed from the Villa' nova of yesteryear, in her land' scape, her skyline, her facilities, her scholastic organization, her authorities, her administrators, her priests and lay teachers. BOOK III ............... 160 The Villanova life, changed per- haps superficially and in nunv her, hut essentially unchanged through the years in its ideal. Every activity has been spon' sored to produce a clear think' ing, right acting, Christian Gentleman. BOOK IV ............. 250 Presenting the Villanova men of today, and the first men of Villa' nova’s second century. A not immediately bright future is theirs to face, for Alma Mater has sent some and will send others to her country's call. c 11 t (111 a is ii m o i
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