After the French painter Ary Scheffer (1795-1858) exhibited this painting of Saint Augustine and his mother in 1846, he stopped exhibiting his art.
Saint Augustine had a pagan father and a Christian mother, the canonized Monica.
Saint Augustine
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Saint Augustine and Saint Monica
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