“Es imposible que se pierda el hijo de tantas lágrimas”. A Saint Who Knew Family Struggles Monica is one of those saints with whom it is possible not merely to sympathise, but almost to commiserate. Her life was not neat. Her family was not perfect. Her marriage was difficult. Her husband, Patricius, was a pagan for most of their marriage, unfaithful and possessed of a violent temper. Her beloved son Augustine rejected the Christian faith she had tried to give him and embraced beliefs she considered profoundly mistaken. He lived with a woman outside marriage and fathered a child. He pursued ambition, philosophy and pleasure, and at one particularly painful moment even deceived his mother and sailed away from her while she remained behind. Monica knew disappointment. She knew what it was to love someone whom she could not change. And, importantly, Monica herself had needed changing. Augustine tells us in his Confessions that as a young girl his mother developed a secret habit of drinkin...
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