Today is the day of Saint Monica. And do you know who she was?
The mother of Augustine, a rebellious, troubled young man who made his mother suffer until her deathbed. She, Monica, tirelessly loved and prayed for his conversion into a good man right up until her last breath, when her son finally decided to change his life. After that, she passed away.
Augustine became Saint Augustine, a philosopher and Doctor of the Church! That is why Saint Monica is revered as the patron saint of distressed mothers.