Saint Augustine Quotes
The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word
Augustine, Saint. Sermons (184-229Z). Translated by Edmund Hill, New City Press, 1993, p. 254.
when he ingests the wafer at holy communion He was referring to the Roman Catholic communion where the bread wafer is believed to be the body of Christ. This really offended many Protestants who saw it as blasphemous and to many justified their intolerance. And yet, as Locke herein observed, there was really no injury that a Roman Catholic taking communion inflicted on a Protestant who had nothing to do with the Catholic service. Of course, the same logic did not then apply to the Roman Catholic intolerance of Jewish and Muslim religious customs in which they were not involved.
Augustine of Hippo, also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian, philosopher, and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. His writings influenced the development of Western philosophy and Western Christianity, and he is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers of the Latin Church in the Patristic Period. His many important works include The City of God, On Christian Doctrine, and Confessions.
