What can a fifth-century text by St. Augustine tell us about the priorities of the two most powerful American Catholics?

Memory includes Book 10, which Wills considers a key to the work's other 12 books in that it links Augustine's accounts of his life before and after his baptism in 387 A.D.

Augustine went on to be revered as a saint after his death in around 604. The Gospels itself may have come to Kent with Augustine in 597 or could have arrived with the second mission in 601.

Said also delves into the contribution of Gatt as a philosopher and a St Augustine scholar, besides his expertise on the Confessions (p.53-60).