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In yesterday’s post, we mentioned that Petrarch was astonished by what he read from Saint Augustine’s Confessions<\/span> after he reached the summit of Mont Ventoux. He recognized the coincidence as part of a larger pattern, a transformative moment. In awe, he descended the mountain in silence. (He’d climbed with his brother.)<\/p>\n

“I could not believe that it was as mere accident that I happened upon them. What I had there read I believed to be addressed to me and to no other, remembering that Saint Augustine had once suspected the same thing in his own case.”<\/p>\n

In fact, Saint Augustine had undergone a nearly identical experience in the garden of Milan in 386 as he confronted a spiritual crisis in his life. He heard a child’s voice from a nearby house mysteriously repeating the words, Tolle, lege,”<\/span> (“Pick up and read.”) <\/p>\n

Baffled, he finally opened a copy of Saint Paul’s epistles read what amounted to a direct response to his lifelong conflict and addressed its resolution. “The light of certainty flooded my heart and all dark shadows of doubt fled away,” he later wrote.<\/p>\n

So just as Augustine’s words randomly read by Petrarch a thousand years later led to the Renaissance, Augustine’s own experience gave rise to the birth of the Christian era. Until his time, Christianity had been a minor sect. So one synchronicity heralded Christianity, the other the Renaissance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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