when was st.monica and st. augustine canonized and whats the reason for there canonization?
anonymous
2009-02-22 13:23:54 UTC
its for my project and i picked st augustine or st monica and people tell me at that time you couldnt be canonized you were just known as a saint ...and can u guys ans. this question for my project urqh thnx : /
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Sentinel
2009-02-22 14:00:20 UTC
In answer to why St.Monica was considered a Saint and canonised as such refer to this link;
http://members.tripod.com/cathdev/monica.html
St.Monica:(Feast Day: 27th August) was declared a Saint by the Catholic people through the local Bishop after her death, and Pope Siricius beatified her sometime between 384-399 AD, Pope John-Paul canonised her on Oct.31st 1982
St.Augustine( Feast day: 28th August) was canonised by Pope Bonniface VIII in the year 1303.
It is quite correct that at the time of Monica and Augustine there were no offical canonisations as we know them in more modern times and people were generally considered saints by the testimonies of ordinary Catholic peoples usually in agreement with the local Bishop, so it is a common occurrence that many Saints were not canonised for hundreds of years after their deaths.
God bless.
username_hidden
2009-02-22 13:41:09 UTC
There was no formal process for 'making' a saint until the middle ages, many hundreds of years after the lives of Saints Monica and Augustine. Before that title 'saint' just came about by popular usage and the acceptance of the church.
St Monica was regarded as a saint for her personal holiness, her fulfillment of the ideal of a Christian wife, and for her long perseverance in prayer for the conversion of her son.
St. Augustine was chiefly noted for his writings and preaching. He is regarded as one of the greatest theologians of all time and many of his works, including the 'Confessions', are still widely read and cited today.
If you need more information than this, then just do a Google search or look up these saints on Wikipedia. But be careful when you search because there are two different St Augustines. Make sure that the information you get is about St. Augustine of Hippo, not St. Augustine of Canterbury.
Midge
2009-02-22 13:59:26 UTC
St Monica was St. Augustine's Mother and she prayed and fasted and long time suffered for her son who finally converted and became the Bishop of Hippo and a Martyr for the Catholic Faith
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2016-11-03 13:38:21 UTC
St Monica Of Hippo
anonymous
2016-10-19 07:43:50 UTC
it style of feels that St. Augustine grew to become into arguing for an ideas-set to Christian faith that would not set it in opposition to the perfect technological know-how of his day -- or the perfect technological know-how of any day to return. What this passage says to me is that Augustine held the Christian scriptures to be conveying information this is mandatory to "salvation," yet that he would not think of Christians would desire to have faith in Genesis, as an occasion, as an infallible handbook to the actual sciences. On questions concerning to the actual sciences, St. Augustine is advising Christ's followers to defer to whoever has the perfect-recommended and maximum achievable explanation, even with no be counted if the perfect-recommended scientists are Christians or pagans. the main obtrusive purposes of St. Augustine's theory right now might in all probability relate to cosmology and organic evolution. i think of Augustine might in all probability say that if properly-meaning Christians insist on the literal certainty of the e book of Genesis in regards to the age & origins of the earth, or related to why different animal species exist, they possibility making Christianity right into a guffawing inventory. extremely than advertising a literal-minded fundamentalism on clinical concerns that Christians would understand much less properly than pagans, Augustine is probably going suggesting, the Christian honest would desire to settle for the accuracy of ideas like Darwinian evolution, a minimum of provisionally. They then would desire to concentration their zeal on the non secular & ethical teachings of the scriptures, not on precisely what somebody 3,000 years in the past theory God would desire to have achieved in the course of the properly widely used 6 days of advent. -- answer from a many times Christian-friendly agnostic
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