“Lay this body anywhere, let not the care for it trouble you at all. This only I ask…”
Lay this body anywhere, let not the care for it trouble you at all. This only I ask, that you will remember me at the Lord’s altar, wherever you be.
Saint Monica · Confessions · NPNF1 I, Confessions, Book IX, chapter xi, 27
Monica to her two sons at Ostia, days before she died, when the younger objected that she would rather not be buried abroad. She had spent years planning to lie beside her husband in Africa, and she sets it aside in a sentence.
How this is known
These words were matched, word for word, against this project’s own copy of the volume cited.
The project holds the volume this row cites, NPNF series 1 vol. 1, and the build matches these words against its bytes at every rebuild. The words are her son’s report of them and this is the only record there is; the Confessions are the sole witness for nearly everything known about her.
Read in Pilkington, NPNF series 1 vol. 1 (1886) · J. G. Pilkington, M.A.
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