The Library · Conversions
How they came to believe
The turning of a life, told wherever possible in the convert's own words — and in Scripture where the account is Scripture. The story carries itself; we only point to the sources.
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His own words Patristic · A.D. 386
Augustine of Hippo
A garden in Milan, a child's voice, and a verse he wasn't looking for.
Told from the Confessions, Book VIII
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Modern · 1891–1942
Edith Stein
A philosopher's conversion, in a memoir the public domain doesn't reach yet.
the sources aren't public domain yet
Conversion accounts are drawn from the convert's own public-domain writings or from Scripture. Where a life's sources aren't yet in the public domain, the card says so plainly rather than inventing a narrative.