Augustine is shown here with Alypius and Possidius.
Alypius was born in the same town as Augustine and studied under him both in Tagaste and Carthage. They became very close fiends. When Augustine moved from Rome to Milan, Alypius desiring to be close to Augustine, joined him.

In one of their discussions on whether to marry or not, Augustine says, " Alypius indeed kept me from marrying; alleging that so could we by no means with undistracted leasure live together in the love of wisdom, as we had long desired." (Conf. 6.12.21) As we shall see later, Alypius was also present at the conversion of Augustine.

Possidius, a friend of Augustine for 40 years, was present at his death and wrote a short life of St. Augustine with a list of his writings. He became the Bishop of Calama in Numidia and like St. Augustine established a monastery.(Vita S. Augustini, xxxi),