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Catholic Church Sacraments #1 How did St. Augustine define the term “Sacrament”? St. Augustine generally understood the term “sacrament” (sacramentum) as a sacred sign – “a sign of a sacred thing” (Letters 138,1). But these were not the only things that Augustine called sacramenta (plural). For him the Lord’s prayer, and the Nicene creed, the Easter.