
Confessions of Augustine: True Conversion Is Baptism (Part IV)
Catholic Saints
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What's Ascribed to Saint Monica?
Augustine says his mother's prayers and her tears drew him to the church. He talks about those tears as a sacrifice that's offered up to God on Augustine's behalf. Monica is not just a mother who loves her son, but whose prayerful tears and tearful prayers are formed by the sacrifice of Christ she encountering in the church.
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