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- History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information about Saint Monica
- Fast, concise facts and information
- Date of Birth and Death
- Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Monica
- Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
- Description / Title of the Saint : Mother of St. Augustine
Saint MonicaFast, concise facts and information about Saint Monica
The following provides fast and concise facts and information: - Memorial Day / Feast Day of Saint Monica: May 4
- Description / Title of the Saint : Mother of St. Augustine
- Date of Death: Saint Monica died 387
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The Story and History of Saint Monica
The story and history of Saint Monica. Monica, the mother of St. Augustine, was born in 332. A, a girlhood of singular innocence and piety, she was given in marriage to Patritius, a pagan. She at once devoted herself to his conversion, praying for him always, and winning his reverence and love by the holiness of her life and her affectionate forbearance. She was rewarded by seeing him baptized a year before his death. When her son Augustine went astray in faith and manners her prayers and tears were incessant. She was once very urgent with a learned bishop that he would talk to her son in order to bring him to a better mind, but he declined, despairing of success with one at once so able and so headstrong. However, on witnessing her prayers and tears, he bade her be of good courage; for it might not be that the child of those tears should perish. By going to Italy, Augustine could for a time free himself from his mother's importunities; but he could not escape from her prayers, which encompassed him like the providence of God. She followed him to Italy, and there by his marvellous conversion her sorrow was turned into joy. At Ostia, on their homeward journey, as Augustine and his mother sat at a window conversing of the life of the blessed, she turned to him and said, "Son, there is nothing now I care for in this life. What I shall now do or why I am here, I know not. The one reason I had for wishing to linger in this life a little longer was that I might see you a Catholic Christian before I died. This has God granted me superabundantly in seeing you reject earthly happiness to become His servant. What do I here?" A few days afterwards she had an attack of fever, and died in the year 387. Feast Day of Saint Monica
The Feast Day of Saint Monica is May 4. The origin of Feast Days: most saints have specially designated feast days and are associated with a specific day of the year and these are referred to as the saint's feast day. The feast days first arose from the very early Christian custom of the annual commemoration of martyrs on the dates of their deaths at the same time celebrating their birth into heaven. Prayer to Saint Monica |
Saint Monica- Short, concise biography of Saint Monica
- History, Life, Biography, Facts and Information
- Fast, concise facts and information about Saint Monica
- Memorial, or Feast Day, of Saint Monica - May 4
- History, Life, Biography, Dates, Facts and Information
- Date of Death: 387
- Important Dates surrounding the life of Saint Monica
- Life History, Story, Biography, Myths and Legends
- Description / Title of the Saint : Mother of St. Augustine
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