ADEODATUS I. - Natural son of St. Augustine, born ca. 372 from his illicit relationship, while he was not yet baptized and only seventeen years old, with a young woman, from whom he would not separate until Milan. She returned to Tagaste and shut herself away in a religious community in expiation. Augustine called A. "the son of his sin" (Confess., IX, 6); yet in his joy at that birth he gave him the name A., that is, "gift of God." Of his life we know very little; he followed his father to Rome, to Milan, to Cassiciacum, and with him received baptism from St. Ambrose. The gifts and the perspicacity of his intellect filled Augustine with pride, but also with terror (ibid.), and he has him take part in discussion in the dialogues that he has left us, written at that time, assigning him an important role as well; for example, in the De vita beata, in which an attempt is made to discover the secret of happiness, and even more so in the De Magistro, where there is discussion of language and its relation to the exterior word and, more, to the interior truth, the Word. A. died young, apparently at the age of seventeen, leaving in Augustine's heart a memory that was never again erased.
Bibliography6 worksSt. Augustine speaks of A. in the following works: Confessiones, IX, 6; PL 32, 769; De vita beata; PL 32, 959-76; De Magistro; PL 32, 1193-1
BIBL.: St. Augustine speaks of A. in the following works: Confessiones, IX, 6; PL 32, 769; De vita beata; PL 32, 959-76; De Magistro; PL 32, 1193-1222. - Cf. also B. Poujoulat, Hist. de s. Augustin, sa vie, ses œuvres, son siècle, influence de son génie, 7th ed., Paris 1886.
Testore, Celestino. “Adeodato I.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 303. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/adeodato-i.
MLA
Testore, Celestino. “Adeodato I.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 303. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/adeodato-i.
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@incollection{ec1_adeodato_i,
author = {Testore, Celestino},
title = {Adeodato I},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {303},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/adeodato-i}
}
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