person
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Augustine
also: der heilige Augustinus, Augustinus
Church Father and theologian (354-430); Rilke recalls his meditation, in the Confessions, on where the past and lost childhood go.
Reading notes
- Auguste Rodin §7 Saint Augustine
The Church Father (354-430); the allusion is to his meditation in the Confessions on where the past, and a vanished childhood, can be said to go.