Augustine of Hippo,
The Confessions of Saint Augustine…
“ He is taken ill, and desires to be baptized; but his mother defers it upon his recovery, as his father is not yet a Christian. As a boy, then, I had already heard of an eternal life, promised us through the humility of the Lord our God stooping to our pride; and even from my mother's womb, whose hope was in Thee, I was signed with the sign of His cross and salted with His salt. Thou sawest, Lord, how while yet a boy, I was one day suddenly seized with oppression of the stomach, and like to die ”
