Monica (died 387 A.D.): at Ostia; born in Tagaste in Roman Africa; after 30 years of prayer, she obtained the conversion of her dissolute pagan husband; under the guidance of Ambrose, she won the conversion of her eldest son, Augustine; patroness of mothers.
also on August 27:
- Marcellus and Companions, martyrs;
- Poemen, abbot; Caesarius of Arles, bishop;
- Syagrius, bishop;
- Hugh or Little Hugh of Lincoln;
- Margaret the Barefooted, widow;
- David Lewis, priest and martyr
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