The Strolling Saint; Being the Confessions of the High and Mighty Agostino

Download or read book The Strolling Saint; Being the Confessions of the High and Mighty Agostino written by Rafael Sabatini and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seeking other than in myself-as men will-the causes of my tribulations, I have often inclined to lay the blame of much of the ill that befell me, and the ill that in my sinful life I did to others, upon those who held my mother at the baptismal font and concerted that she should bear the name of Monica. There are in life many things which, in themselves, seeming to the vulgar and the heedless to be trivial and without consequence, may yet be causes pregnant of terrible effects, mainsprings of Destiny itself. Amid such portentous trifles I would number the names so heedlessly bestowed upon us.