The Virtues of Patricius

Julian Zelizer: We know Monica as a mother who prays for her way we're a child. But she also had, as you mentioned earlier, a difficult husband, Patricius. And he was a pagan; his father didn't value chastity, because pagans didn't. He says Augustine recognizes that his father was not sexually faithful to the marriage. Yet, Monica has a mercy on where her husband's at, or where he's not at,. and still loves him and seeks to convert him.