Monica's Famous Request

Happy Saint Monica’s Day

August 27:  Feast of St. Monica – Devoted Mother of St. Augustine

http://www.americancatholic.org/features/saints/saint.aspx?id=1120

You remember the story of Monica dying in Ostia.  Augustine and his family were travelling back to North Africa after his baptism in Milan.  There was civil unrest at the time and Ostia was blockaded.  While they were waiting, Monica became ill and died.  She famously told her son, (conf. 9):

“Lay this body anywhere, she said: let the care for it trouble you not at all; I ask only this, that you will remember me at the Lord’s altar, where so ever you may be.”

She was buried there in Ostia.  In the 6th century she was moved to the little church of St. Aurea.  In 1430 her remains were translated by Pope Martin V to the Roman Basilica of St. Augustine near the Piazza Navona.

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