Andreas Spal

SUMMARY: We know from Augustine’s Confessions that the house and garden in which his conversion took place were situated in Milan. According to a popular tradition of uncertain origin the garden exact location was identified with that of a chapel called San Remigio. This (chapel) stood in the vicinity of the monastery of Sant’Ambrogio, today the Universita` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, and was destroyed before 1824. San Remigio’s remains were rediscovered at the end of the 1940s, and some years later Michelangelo Cagiano de Azevedo wrote an important paper regarding this chapel. It is strange that the tradition linked to San Remigio, even though quite unlikely, and Cagiano de Azevedo’s observations have been almost completely ignored by modern research on Augustine.