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n>In his Life of St. Augustine, the 5th-century bishop Possidius tells us that the greatest of the Latin Doctors of the Church, knowing that his earthly end was near, had four penitential psalms copied and hung on the walls of his room. “From his sickbed,” Possidius writes, Augustine “could see these sheets of paper . . . and would read them, crying constantly and deeply.” It was an act of deep piety that we all might ponder ways to emulate. Read Full Article »
