St. Monica

331 - Born at Tagaste (located in modern-day Algeria, North Africa) in the department of Constantine.

370 - She was able to convert her husband and his mother to the Catholic faith.

387 - St. Augustine was baptized by St. Ambrose.

         - St. Monica died later that same year at the age of 56, on the way back to Africa from Rome in the Italian town of Ostia.