Who is sta. monica

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He had been brought up a Christian, yet his sins of impurity and his pride darkened his mind so much, that he could not see or understand the Divine Truth anymore. All Monica's anxiety now centred in Augustine.

Because of his laziness and wayward ways, he was sent to Madaura and to Carthage to pursue his studies and here he fell into grievous sin. He lived with his mistress for ten years and subscribed to Manichaeism. On his return home he ventilated certain heretical propositions and St. Monica drove him away from her table.

Later, St. Monica had a strange vision which urged her to recall him. It was at this time that she went to see a certain holy bishop who consoled her with the now famous words, "the child of those tears shall never perish.

At the death of her husband, she followed Augustine to Rome only to find out that he had already gone to Milan. Again she followed him and there she found Saint Ambrose. Mother and son spent six months of true peace at Cassiacum. After seventeen years of resistance, Augustine yielded to the ministering of St.

Ambrose and was baptized by him in the church of St. John the Baptist in Milan at the age of 28, on Easter Eve in Not long after, as she was preparing to return to Africa, St.

Monica died at the age of 56 at the port of Ostia, telling Augustine: "There was indeed one thing for which I wished to tarry a little in this life, and that was that I might see you a Catholic Christian before I died. Her greatest desire was for her children to follow Christ. Although later in life he was known as a fervent man of God, St. As a child, he proved to be quite difficult, causing Monica much grief, and as a young adult he remained uninterested in Christianity.

But St. Monica never stopped praying for his eternal soul, in spite of the circumstances. After many years of prayer, Saint Monica finally saw her son give his life to the service of God. As a young girl, Monica had a shocking experience. According to the custom of the time, her parents would ask her to bring up wine from the cellar for them. Once Monica took a sip of the wine before she brought it up. After that, she gradually began to drink just a little more each day.

She thought no one knew about it. Then one day, Monica quarreled with a servant, and the servant accused her of drinking too much. Monica realized that the maid was right.

This helped her to face this temptation. She decided then and there to stop drinking and she did.