1. Saint Monica is remembered and honored in the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, albeit on different feast days, for her outstanding Christian virtues, particularly the suffering caused by her husband's adultery, and her prayerful life dedicated to the reformation of her son, who wrote extensively of her pious acts and life with her in his Confessions.
Saint Monica is most likely to have been born in Thagaste.
Saint Monica is believed to have been a Berber on the basis of her name.
Saint Monica was married early in life to Patricius, a decurion pagan, in Thagaste.
Saint Monica was 17 and studying rhetoric in Carthage when Patricius died.
When, upon his return home, he shared his views regarding Manichaeism, Saint Monica drove him away from her table.
Saint Monica was buried at Ostia and at first seems to have been almost forgotten, though her body was removed during the 6th century to a hidden crypt in the church of Santa Aurea in Ostia.
Saint Monica's tomb was later transferred to the Basilica of Sant'Agostino, Rome.
Many miracles are said to have occurred on the way, and the cultus of Saint Monica was definitely established.
In 1934, in the Dutch city of Utrecht, the order of the 'Zusters Augustinessen van Sint-Saint Monica' was founded, doing social work, offering a shelter for women with unwanted pregnancies or women who were the victims of domestic violence or abuse.
The city of Santa Saint Monica, California, is named after Saint Monica.
Saint Monica continues to pray for deliverance from temptation and is visited by St Monica.