# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/saint-monica
# Generated: 2026-09-01T04:30:48.055Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/saint-monica"
name: "Saint Monica"
slug: "saint-monica"
description: "The mother who prayed a wayward son into sainthood. Monica of Hippo spent years weeping for Augustine — then a pleasure-seeking rhetor drifting toward heresy — until he broke, converted, and wrote her into Christian memory."
tagline: "Christian saint; mother of St. Augustine"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Piero%2C_santa_monaca.jpg"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
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  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "332"
deathDate: "387"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             25
  historical:           25.47413733333333
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: 115
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    slug: "religious-figure"
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    slug: "ancient-history"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sankt Monica"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monika_von_Tagaste"
    title: "Monika von Tagaste"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91%CE%B3%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CE%9C%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%AF%CE%BA%CE%B7"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique_d'Hippone"
    title: "Monique d'Hippone"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Saint Monica"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szent_M%C3%B3nika"
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    title: "Monika"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Santa Monica"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "წმინდა მონიკა"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Šv. Monika"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Svētā Monika"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "مونيكا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B3nica_d'Hipona"
    title: "Mónica d'Hipona"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Monica lived in fourth-century North Africa, married to a man whose adultery marked her daily life. Her son Augustine spent his twenties chasing philosophy and mistresses, which she met with nightly tears and relentless prayer. She followed him across the Mediterranean, refusing to let him slip away. He converted in 387. She died that same year, her work finished. Augustine later wrote her into his Confessions, preserving her pious acts and suffering in prose that made her a model of maternal endurance. The Catholic and Orthodox Churches honor her on separate feast days.