Sermons and letters treat visiting the sick and burying the dead as public works of the Hippo church
In pastoral speech, as later transmitted, Augustine treats visiting the sick and burying the dead as obligatory works of the church at Hippo. In the causal graph this event strengthens Health-System Capacity, a driver that strengthens Hospital beds (per 1,000 people) — an improving welfare path.
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In pastoral speech, as later transmitted, Augustine treats visiting the sick and burying the dead as obligatory works of the church at Hippo. The instrument is that care-instruction. Implementation by unnamed widows, deacons, and householders is ordinary. A later hospital order is not 410 autograph. Augustine of Hippo's documented role is: He preached the works. Unnamed clergy and widows did them. Medium on unique capacity coefficients. No Factrail-original bed count.
Context
Ordination 391 is the office that made the speech his job. Sharing care with the congregation is required. Vandal siege 430 will overwhelm the city; that is a different row. Manichaean years are not a clinic. The setting of Sermons and letters treat visiting the sick and burying the dead as public works of the Hippo church is the public file around 0410-06-01. Driver health-system-capacity is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.
If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.
Why it matters
Improving path from Sermons and letters treat visiting the sick and burying the dead as public works of the Hippo church on 0410-06-01. The welfare reading on this path is improving.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Augustine Of Hippo
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.32 · verified
He preached the works. Unnamed clergy and widows did them. Medium on unique capacity coefficients. No Factrail-original bed count.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactSermons and letters treat visiting the sick and burying the dead as public works of the Hippo church
- strengthensDriverHealth-System Capacity
- strengthensIndicators (2)Hospital beds (per 1,000 people)
impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 June 410 · verified
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.18 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.6)
Observed
3.08 Per 1000 people · 1.24 below the normal line (2023)
Worse than normal6 readings, 2018–2023: rose from 3.07 Per 1000 people to 3.08 Per 1000 people.
Above normal = better
Weakens · Relationship strength 0.15 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.5)
Observed
37.4 deaths per 1,000 live births · 12.4 above the normal line (2024)
Worse than normal7 readings, 2018–2024: fell from 40 deaths per 1,000 live births to 37.4 deaths per 1,000 live births.
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: Cambridge Companion to Augustine at https://doi.org/10.1017/cco9781139178044 (opens in a new tab) (Cambridge University Press). Independent locator: Britannica — Saint Augustine, pastoral care neighbourhood at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine (opens in a new tab) (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Cambridge Companion to Augustine (https://doi.org/10.1017/cco9781139178044 (opens in a new tab); Cambridge University Press). Independent carrier: Britannica — Saint Augustine, pastoral care neighbourhood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).
Established: a sourced public record of Sermons and letters treat visiting the sick and burying the dead as public works of the Hippo church under 0410-06-01 for Augustine of Hippo. Established: a sourced public record of Sermons and letters treat visiting the sick and burying the dead as public works of the Hippo church under 0410-06-01.
That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.
Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Alms is the humanitarian neighbour; this is sick-and-dead care. Mixed effects of Sermons and letters treat visiting the sick and burying the dead as public works of the Hippo church are separate paths.
Shared responsibility is part of Sermons and letters treat visiting the sick and burying the dead as public works of the Hippo church. Naming Augustine of Hippo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0410-06-01 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 letters treat visiting the sick and burying the dead as public works of the Hippo church
- strengthensDriverHealth-System Capacity
- strengthensIndicatorHospital beds (per 1,000 people)
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Factrail. (2026). Sermons and letters treat visiting the sick and burying the dead as public works of the Hippo church. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/au-sick-care
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Accessed 16 October 2026.
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