The Influence of Virgil and St. Augustine on Brideshead Revisited | Prof. Patrick Callahan
The Thomistic Institute
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The Orthodox Tradition in the Lares
Sebastian, the alcoholic, seeks a monastery pretty much where Saint Augustine went and saw the monastery. Instead of being raised up to a bishop, he's so drunk and so ill and so useless that they just make him a porter. And yet he becomes sort of like this saintly porter. He goes out and drinks and they know that, but then he comes back. But again, I am not I. You are not he or she, right? Charles is also both Aeneas and Augustine.
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