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What is Saint Monica the patron saint of?

I'm looking at Saint Monica for my confirmation name and I want to know what she is know for.


Here is a link to her story

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10482a.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monica_of_Hippo

2009-04-14 15:45:38 by Emmy

SAINT MONICA 17 YEARS OF PRAYER AND TEARS !! MOTHER OF SAINT AUGUSTINE 387 ...


The Mother#39;s words to her daughter, showing the greatness and perfection of the life of St. Benedict by means of a comparison; also, the soul ...


SAINTS ALIVE!!! not really....

This poor victim of child abuse never had the love of her father or step-mother. They made her tend the sheep and she was made to sleep in the stable under a stairway. She attended daily Mass, leaving her flock in the care of God. She shared her dry bread as alms to others. Finally she was found one morning, dead on her vine twig mattress. Forthwith by the Emperor's command he was cruelly scourged with rods, then stretched upon the rack, and tormented by the long-continued tearing of his flesh with hooks, and also burnt with torches. But he continued in the faith of Christ, saying: There is no King but Christ, and though I be slain a thousand times for Him, yet ye cannot take Him from my heart or my mouth; and thus he merited the palm of martyrdom by beheading. Although the Martyrology...

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