Sermons and enarrationes press alms and the claims of the poor as public episcopal speech
Across dated sermons, as later transmitted, Augustine tells congregations that the poor have a claim and that alms are not optional decoration. In the causal graph this event strengthens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — a worsening welfare path.
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Across dated sermons, as later transmitted, Augustine tells congregations that the poor have a claim and that alms are not optional decoration. The instrument is that preaching. Implementation by unnamed deacons is ordinary. A later charity brand is not 410. Augustine of Hippo's documented role is: He preached. Deacons distributed. Unique totals of loaves are not supplied. Medium on unique welfare coefficients.
Context
The bishop-office row stores the chair. This stores the alms-speech. Sharing distribution with church stewards is required. City of God's servitude theology is a worsening neighbour, not a rebate. Letter 93 is not an alms sermon. The setting of Sermons and enarrationes press alms and the claims of the poor as public episcopal speech is the public file around 0410-01-01. Driver humanitarian-access is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
Why it matters
Improving path from Sermons and enarrationes press alms and the claims of the poor as public episcopal speech on 0410-01-01. Public episcopal speech that binds hearers to the poor is a humanitarian path of medium weight. The welfare reading on this path is improving.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Augustine Of Hippo
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.4 · verified
He preached. Deacons distributed. Unique totals of loaves are not supplied. Medium on unique welfare coefficients.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactSermons and enarrationes press alms and the claims of the poor as public episcopal speech
- strengthensDriverHumanitarian Access
- strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)
impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 January 410 · verified
Public episcopal speech that binds hearers to the poor is a humanitarian path of medium weight.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.17 (weight 0.35 × strength 0.5)
Observed
69M people (stock, end-of-year) · 28M above the normal line (2025)
Worse than normal3 readings, 2023–2025: rose from 68M people (stock, end-of-year) to 69M people (stock, end-of-year).
Above normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Cambridge Companion to AugustineCambridge University Press · High credibility · verified
- 2.Britannica — Pelagianism / AugustineEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish
Official locator: Britannica — Saint Augustine, preacher / poor neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent locator: Cambridge Companion to Augustine at https://doi.org/10.1017/cco9781139178044 (opens in a new tab) (Cambridge University Press). Official carrier: Britannica — Saint Augustine, preacher / poor neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Cambridge Companion to Augustine (https://doi.org/10.1017/cco9781139178044 (opens in a new tab); Cambridge University Press).
Established: a sourced public record of Sermons and enarrationes press alms and the claims of the poor as public episcopal speech under 0410-01-01 for Augustine of Hippo. Established: a sourced public record of Sermons and enarrationes press alms and the claims of the poor as public episcopal speech under 0410-01-01.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Sick-care is a neighbouring health row. Mixed effects of Sermons and enarrationes press alms and the claims of the poor as public episcopal speech are separate paths.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Shared responsibility is part of Sermons and enarrationes press alms and the claims of the poor as public episcopal speech. Naming Augustine of Hippo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0410-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorAugustine Of Hippo
- contributed toFactSermons and enarrationes press alms and the claims of the poor as public episcopal speech
- strengthensDriverHumanitarian Access
- strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)
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Factrail. (2026). Sermons and enarrationes press alms and the claims of the poor as public episcopal speech. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/au-sermons-poor
https://factrail.ai/facts/au-sermons-poor
Accessed 16 October 2026.
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