Saint Monica (A.D. 332-387): Model of Christian Mothers book not booklet Devotion to the Sorrowful Mother casting out devils

casting out devils

He was canonized by Pius XII in 1947

Arabs successfully managed to subjugate North Africa

The crucifix is solid wood with the silhouette of Jesus crucified

husband of Mary *

Saint Monica (A.D. 332-387): Model of Christian Mothers book not booklet Devotion to the Sorrowful Mother casting out devilsNo one can love quite like a mother, as the Virgin Mary attests. And no one quite imitated the Mother of God's sorrowful love of her sinful children as much as St. Monica, whose daily tears for her son Augustine bore the fruit of a magnificent Doctor of the entire Church and a pillar of the Latin tradition. Truly, St. Monica was a suffering mother, even a martyr for the cause of her son's salvation; and as the Blessed Mother Mary is the cause of our