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Saint Monica, who lived in the 300s, married a pagan with a violent temper, her marriage arranged by her family, and also had a hard to deal with mother-in-law, and a wayward son who left left the Church. But she was a woman of unending prayer and Christian devotion, and her husband converted to Christianity a year before his death, and her mother in law converted as well. She pursued her son with unrelenting prayer as well. A bishop told her “the child of these tears shall never perish.” Then her son converted to the Christian faith too, who became a great saint and bishop, Saint Augustine.
see stmonicas.info/The%20Life%20of%20St.%20Monica.htm
This life of Saint Monica is provided by Saint Monica’s Catholic Church, England (the Diocese of Shrewsbury)
Her son, Saint Augustine, gives this account of her meeting with him at Ostia on the Tiber River shortly before her death, showing her love as a mother and her devotion to God, and it also relates Saint Augustine’s final conversation with his dying mother, at faithofthefatherssaintquote.blogspot.com/2006/05/saint-quote-st-augustine-and-st-monica.html
see stmonicas.info/The%20Life%20of%20St.%20Monica.htm
This life of Saint Monica is provided by Saint Monica’s Catholic Church, England (the Diocese of Shrewsbury)
Her son, Saint Augustine, gives this account of her meeting with him at Ostia on the Tiber River shortly before her death, showing her love as a mother and her devotion to God, and it also relates Saint Augustine’s final conversation with his dying mother, at faithofthefatherssaintquote.blogspot.com/2006/05/saint-quote-st-augustine-and-st-monica.html