spiritual age, to be raised in your training.”21 Augustine could best be a father by learning to be an icon that his son sees through rather than an idol he worships. And before that Father, they are brothers—“the same age,” as Augustine puts it. I thought about this when we visited Milan and climbed down the narrow stairs to the archaeological area beneath the Duomo to see the baptismal font where Augustine, Adeodatus, and his friend Alypius were all baptized together. I didn’t think of all the fathers who had left me. I thought about the Father who had found me—the Father who had gifted me
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