Bonus Episode – Susannah Black Roberts – St. Monica of Thagaste

Brent is joined by Susannah Black Roberts, senior editor of ‘Plough’ to talk about St. Monica of Thagaste, the mother of St. Augustine.

We learn about Monica’s unusual marriage, her vision about her son and Augustine’s student years – ‘a sort of late Classical Carthaginian Brideshead Revisited Scene’.  We also learn about Roman toilets! 

Susannah has written for publications including ‘First Things’, ‘Fare Forward’, ‘Front Porch Republic’ and ‘Mere Orthodoxy’.  

• (1:10) The Dead Ladies Show;
• (3:25) Who was St. Monica?
• (4:30) An unusual marriage;
• (8:00) Roman society and ‘flush’ toilets;
• (10:30) Monica in Augustine’s writings;
• (11:00) Augustine’s student years;
• (13:00) Monica’s vision;
• (13:50) Debates with theologians;
• (14:45) Ambrose;
• (17:00) Augustine’s baptism;
• (17:30) Monica and Augustine’s last conversation;
• (19:30) Monica’s funerary marker.

Links mentioned in this episode:

www.plough.com/en/topics/life/relationships/monica-of-thagaste#!

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