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    "The day on which she was to die came closer and closer. It was a day unknown to us, but You were fully aware of it. I firmly believe that in Your inscrutable ways You had arranged that she and I were alone at the window and looking out into the inner garden of that house on the Tiber at Ostia. Away from the crowds, we had retired there after a long and tiresome journey to renew our strength for the ocean voyage.

    "It was a sweet and pleasant talk we had together in the peaceful and quiet retreat, our thoughts straining forward to what is before, forgetting what is behind (Phil. 3:13). In Your presence, You who are Truth Itself, we would ask each other how wonderful the heavenly life of Your saints must be, a life that no

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    Saint Monica

    Christian saint; Saint Augustine's mother

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    Monica

    Saint Monica by Benozzo Gozzoli, 1464–65

    Bornc. 332
    Thagaste, Numidia Cirtensis, Western Roman Empire (present-day Souk Ahras, Algeria)
    Died387
    Ostia, Western Roman Empire
    Venerated in
    CanonizedPre-Congregation
    Major shrine
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    PatronageMarried women; difficult marriages; disappointing children; victims of adultery or unfaithfulness; victims of (verbal) abuse; and conversion of relatives; alcoholics; Berbers,[1]Lapsed Catholics; Manaoag, Pangasinan, Philippines; Don Galo, Parañaque, Philippines; Santa Monica, California, United States; Saint Monica University, Buea, Cameroon; Pinamungajan, Cebu, Philippines; St. Monique Valais, Binangonan, Rizal; Santa Monica Parish Church (Angat), Bulacan; Mexico, Pampanga; Minalin, Pampanga; Sta. Monica Parish Church, Pavia, Iloilo; Sta. Monica Parish Church, Hamtic, Ant
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    St. Monica

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    Widow; born of Christianparents at Tagaste, North Africa, in 333; died at Ostia, nära Rome, in 387.

    We are told but little of her childhood. She was married early in life to Patritius who held an tjänsteman position in Tagaste. He was a pagan, though like so many at that period, his tro was no more than a name; his temper was violent and he appears to have been of dissolute habits. Consequently Monica's married life was far from being a happy one, more especially as Patritius's mother seems to have been of a like disposition with himself. There was of course a gulf between husband and wife; her almsdeeds and her habits of bön annoyed him, but it is said that he always held her in a sort of reverence. Monica was not the only matron of Tagaste whose