narrators mother

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• offers sacrifice forNarrator

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  The narrator's mother's tears, poured out night and day, are seen as a sacrifice offered to God for him.

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  and out of my mother's heart's blood, through her tears night and day poured out, was a sacrifice offered for me unto Thee

• grievesNarrator's journey

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  The narrator's mother deeply mourned his departure for Rome.

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  nor to my mother, who grievously bewailed my journey

• stays atOratory in memory of the blessed Cyprian

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  The narrator's mother stayed for a night in the Oratory near the ship before the narrator departed.

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  I scarcely persuaded her to stay that night in a place hard by our ship, where was an Oratory in memory of the blessed Cyprian.

• prays toGod

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  The mother's tears were a prayer to God, asking that her son would not sail.

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  And what, O Lord, was she with so many tears asking of Thee, but that Thou wouldest not suffer me to sail?

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• enduredPatricius

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  Augustine's mother patiently bore her husband Patricius's choleric temperament, never retaliating in word or deed.

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  knowing what a choleric husband she endured, marvelled that it had never been heard, nor by any token perceived, that Patricius had beaten his wife, or that there had been any domestic difference between them, even for one day

• advisedOther Matrons

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  Augustine's mother offered practical and spiritual advice to other married women on how to maintain peace in their marriages by considering themselves as servants to their husbands.

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  she taught them her practice above mentioned. Those wives who observed it found the good, and returned thanks; those who observed it not, found no relief, and suffered

• overcamePatricius's Mother

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  Through her consistent meekness and endurance, Augustine's mother resolved the initial animosity from her mother-in-law, which had been incited by household servants.

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  Her mother-in-law also, at first by whisperings of evil servants incensed against her, she so overcame by observance and persevering endurance and meekness, that she of her own accord discovered to her son the meddling tongues whereby the domestic peace betwixt her and her daughter-in-law had been disturbed, asking him to correct them

• gainedPatricius

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  Augustine's mother successfully influenced her husband, Patricius, leading him to convert to Christianity towards the very end of his earthly life.

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  her own husband, towards the very end of his earthly life, did she gain unto Thee; nor had she to complain of that in him as a believer, which before he was a believer she had borne from him

• servedGod's Servants

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  Augustine's mother diligently cared for all of God's servants, treating them with maternal affection and devotion after they received the grace of baptism.

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  did she so take care of, as though she had been mother of us all; so served us, as though she had been child to us all

• was located atOstia

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  Augustine's mother was present with him at Ostia, where they rested during a journey and shared a significant spiritual conversation.

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  she and I stood alone, leaning in a certain window, which looked into the garden of the house where we now lay, at Ostia

• briefly touched uponWisdom (Divine)

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  In their deep spiritual discourse and mental ascent, Augustine's mother momentarily apprehended or experienced a connection with the divine Eternal Wisdom.

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  we slightly touched on her with the whole effort of our heart

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• cleaved toThe Narrator

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  The narrator's mother, filled with masculine faith and Christian piety, remained close to him and Alypius at the villa.

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  my mother cleaving to us

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• desiredBaptism

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  The narrator's mother, deeply concerned for his salvation, eagerly sought to have him consecrated and cleansed by the health-giving sacrament of baptism.

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  would in eager haste have provided for my consecration and cleansing by the health-giving sacraments

• had faith inGod

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  The narrator's mother possessed a heart pure in faith, deeply believing in God and Jesus.

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  with a heart pure in Thy faith, she even more lovingly travailed in birth of my salvation), would in eager haste have provided for my consecration and cleansing by the health-giving sacraments, confessing Thee, Lord Jesus

• prevailed overNarrator's Father

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  The mother's piety and earnest care for her son's faith in God ultimately outweighed her husband's non-belief.

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  yet did not he prevail over the power of my mother's piety in me, that as he did not yet believe, so neither should I. For it was her earnest care that Thou my God, rather than he, shouldest be my father

• foresawTemptation

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  The narrator's mother anticipated the numerous and significant moral trials that would confront her son after his boyhood.

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• desiresMarriage

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  The narrator's mother actively worked to arrange his marriage, hoping it would lead to his baptism and spiritual health.

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  I wooed, I was promised, chiefly through my mother's pains, that so once married, the health-giving baptism might cleanse me, towards which she rejoiced that I was being daily fitted

• prays_toGod

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  The narrator's mother frequently prayed to God, asking for a vision concerning her son's future marriage.

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  with strong cries of heart she daily begged of Thee, that Thou wouldest by a vision discover unto her something concerning my future marriage; Thou never wouldest.

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