Abstract

The article presents the traces of rituals and celebrations of Lent in the Church of Milan in 387, following the clues that we have in the texts both of St. Augustine and St. Ambrose. It deals also about the structure of the catechumenate in Hippo, St. Augustine’s Diocese, underlining those things which were common to other Churches, and those which were exclusive of Northern Africas Church. It presents briefly the ritual of the traditio symboli and the traditio orationis, and also describes St. Augustine’s sermons to the newly baptized or infants, during the in albis Week.