MONICA, Saint, mother of Saint Augus tine (q.v.) : b. Africa 332; d. Ostia 387. A Christian who, in accordance with the wishes of her parents, also Christians, married a pagan. She devoted nearly all her life to the conversion of her husband and son Augustine. Her self sacrifice was at last rewarded; her husband, Patricius, became a Christian, and Augustine, seeing the error of his ways, reformed. After the baptism of Saint Augustine at Easter, 387, she set out with her two sons for Africa. Ar riving at Ostia she became ill and here died. A friend asked her in Ostia if she were not afraid to be buried in a place so far from her own country. She replied: "Nothing is far from God." Her eminent son preserved many of her holy sayings which he often repeated in his sermons. In the Roman Catholic Church she is regarded as the model and patroness of wives and mothers. Her feast is 4 May. In 1430 her relics were brought to Rome, and were later deposited in the Church of Saint Augustine. Consult 'Saint Augustine's Works' edited by Tillemont; Butler, 'Lives of the Saints.' Snt Monier, Eng lish Sanskrit scholar : b. Bombay, 12 Nov. 1819; d. Cannes, France, 11 April 1899. He was a
son of Monier-Williams, surveyor-general. He was educated at Oxford, and was for a short period a student at the East India College, Haileybury. He was professor of Sanskrit at Haileybury from 1844 to the extinction of the college in 1858, and in 1860 became Boden San skrit professor at Oxford, a post which he held till his death. Among his numerous works are 'Practical Sanskrit Grammar' (1846); 'Eng lish-Sanskrit Dictionary' (1851) ; edition with notes, translations, etc., of the Sakuntala (1853) ; 'Introduction to Hindustani' (1858) ; Epic Poetry' (1863) ; 'Sanskrit-English Dic tionary> (1872; 2d edition 1899) ; Wis dom' (1875) ; 'Hinduism' (1877) ; 'Modern India and the Indians' (1878) ; 'Religious Life and Thought in India' (1883) ; 'The Holy Bible and the Sacred Books of the East' (1886) ; 'Brahmanism and Hinduism' (1889) ; niscences of old Haileybury College' (1894). He traveled extensively throughout India in order to study the native religions, and to fur ther his scheme of an Indian institute, which he succeeded in getting established at Oxford.