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<p> of Tagaste, in Numidia, was some years younger than Augustine, to whom he was strongly attached. From Carthage, whither he followed Augustine, he went to Rome to study the law, and there obtained a place in the imperial treasury. This charge he gave up in order to follow [[Augustine]] to Milan. Both of them up to this time had been Manichaeans, and both were at this time converted to the [[Catholic]] faith, and baptized in the church of St. [[Ambrose]] on Easter-eve, A.D. 387. Upon their return to [[Africa]] they withdrew into a solitude near Tagaste; but when Augustine was ordained a priest of the church of Hippo, he drew [[Alypius]] from his solitude to take charge of the monastery which he had just built in Hippo. After this Alypius visited the Holy Land, and upon his return in 394 was elected bishop of Tagaste. In 403 he was present at a council held at [[Carthage]] in which the [[Donatists]] were invited to a conference, but refused; and in 411 he was named, with six others, to represent the Catholics in the celebrated conference between the Catholics and Donatists which the [[Emperor]] [[Honorius]] enjoined. It is believed that he was with Augustine at [[Hippo]] at the time of his death in 430, and it is uncertain how long he survived him. The [[Roman]] [[Martyrology]] commemorates him on the 15th of August. — S. August. Confess. lib. 6; Ep. 22, etc.; S. Jerome, Ep. 81; Baillet, Aug. 15; Butler, Lives of Saints, 3, 375. </p>

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