“Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts as harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happiness through the chinks of her sickness-broken body.”

—  Thomas Fuller

Life of Monica (1642).

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English churchman and historian 1608–1661

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