The article studies the sermons of St. Augustine preached on the feast of St. Stephen. It makes a synopsis of St. Augustine’s theology of martyrdom, underlining the main theological topics presented in the St. Stephen’s sermons, making a special remark on the miracles that were accomplished through the intercession of St. Stephen.

The article deals with the expression membrana et atramentum within the Works of St. Augustine, to present, through a panoramic reading of the Works of the Bishop of Hippo, the semantic, semiotic and theological results.

The way in which Augustine engages Aristotle’s thought in the Confessions reveals much about the extent to which and manner in which he was capable of benefiting from non-Platonic sources. It is therefore the goal of this article to scrutinize that engagement as closely as possible in an effort to better surmise Augustine’s relationship to the non-Platonic veins of classical philosophy.

The article deals with the marks that sixteenth century augustinianism left on biblical exegesis at the Louvain Faculty of Theology. As an example of it, the works of Cornelius Jansenius of Ghent are studied, stressing their double purpose: the scholarly exegetical approach, and the spiritual and pastoral-liturgical goal. The works of Thomas Stapleton, Promptuaria and Antidota, are studied, outlining their intention of counteracting the biblical interpretations of Calvin, Beza and the other reformers.

The article studies the lexical parallelism between the text of Conf 5,15 and the Aeneid. From this parallel, semantic and semiotic conclusions are drawn, to show that one of the texts which lies under Conf 5, 15 as an hypotext is the text of Virgil’s Aeneid, books IV-VI.

The article deals with Saint Augustine’s comment on the text of John 4, 1-42, in which Christ talks with the Samaritan woman, making a special remark on the augustinian texts of eu. tr. 15 and diu. qu. 64.