VATICAN CITY (CNS) — “So much of who I am I owe to the spirit and the teachings of St. Augustine,” Pope Leo XIV told his Augustinian confreres and their benefactors who were celebrating the saint’s feast day in Philadelphia. So instead, Augustinian Father Robert P. Hagan, prior of the order’s Province of St. Thomas of Villanova, based outside Philadelphia, presented the St. Augustine Medal to Pope Leo in July in Castel Gandolfo where the pope was taking a summer break. The presentation was filmed along with a long video message by Pope Leo, reflecting on St. Augustine and the religious order inspired by him, which the future pope joined in 1977. St. Augustine, who lived 354-430, “was one of the great founders of monasticism; a bishop, theologian, preacher, writer and doctor of the church,” the pope said. St. Augustine taught the faithful “to listen to the inner teacher, the voice that speaks from within all of us.