Augustine of Hippo
Christian theologian, rhetor, North African bishop, Doctor of the Catholic Church, saint, and a philosopher influenced in his early years by Manichaeism and the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus.
Fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum donec requiescat in te.
Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine,
It is a pity to see you lopped off in this manner From the stock.
Reckon up the prelates in the very see of Peter;
And in that order of fathers see which has succeeded which.
This is the rock over which the proud gates of hell prevail not.
He who sings prays twice. (Qui cantat, bis orat)
So the Church imitates the Lord’s mother — not in the bodily sense, which it could not do — but in mind it is both mother and virgin. In no way, then, did Christ deprive his mother of her virginity by being
In necessariis unitas, In dubiis libertas, In omnibus autem caritas.