Saint Monica (A.D. 332-387): Model of Christian Mothers book not booklet Devotion to the Sorrowful Mother He was canonized by Pius

He was canonized by Pius XII in 1947

casting out devils

and thou shalt call his name John

The third is to be a champion of all Christians

gifts of grace to those who ask has made her a very popular saint to ask favours of

Saint Monica (A.D. 332-387): Model of Christian Mothers book not booklet Devotion to the Sorrowful Mother He was canonized by PiusNo 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