Roman Catholics observe Monday, Aug. 28, the feast of Saint Augustine (San Agustin), one of the Roman Catholic Church’s most popular saints and the revered founder of the Augustinian Order.
Pasig Bishop Mylo Hubert Vergara will celebrate a high mass at 5 p.m. at the San Agustin Parish in Palatiw, Pasig City. It will be followed by a solemn procession.
Holy masses will also be offered at 6 a.m. to be followed by a procession and at 10 a.m. Novena masses were held from Aug. 19 to 27.
At the San Agustin Church-Immaculate Conception Parish in Manila, a concelebrated fiesta mass will be celebrated at 5:30 p.m. A procession will be held at 4 p.m.
Commemorative masses will also be offered in parishes under the patronage of San Agustin such as at the Diocesan Shrine of San Agustin de Tanza in Sta. Cruz, Tanza in Cavite in commemoration of the feast of the revered “Tata Usteng.” The diocesan shrine will mark its 243rd parish anniversary on Tuesday, Aug. 29.
Feast masses will also be celebrated at the San Agustin Parish in San Fernando Pampanga and at the San Agustin Church in Intramuros, Manila.
Also known as St. Augustine of Hippo, his feast follows that of his mother, Saint Monica, the patron saint of wives and mothers, whose feast day was commemorated Sunday , Aug. 27.
Known as the Doctor of Grace because of his miraculous transformation from his wayward ways through the perseverance of his mother, St. Monica and his mentor, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine discovered, through prayer, a change of heart.
Ordained priest in the year 391, he served as bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa in 396 until 430.
His masterpiece, the “Confessions,” became a classic of Christian theology and western literature.
Born on Nov. 13, 354 in Tagaste, North Africa, he died in 430. St. Augustine was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Boniface VIII in 1303.