St. Augustine is one of the most significant of the saints in the Church’s history. He is one of the greatest theologians that the Church has produced, only surpassed by St. Thomas Aquinas. Augustine was not baptized as a child, as his father and his father’s family were pagan and would not allow his Christian mother to have him baptized. He became a teacher, and a bit of a libertine. If you read his autobiography, it becomes clear that he was what today we would call a sex addict.
    
Eventually, due to his mother’s prayers, Augustine would become a Catholic. Very quickly he became a priest, and then the bishop of Hippo, a Northern African diocese, where Augustine was from. 
    
St. Monica, his mother, prayed constantly for her son, and he attributed her prayers for his conversion.
    
This Thursday and Friday are the feasts of St. Monica and St. Augustine.