Like mother, like son

With our Back-to-School BOGO sale going on, we've been talking a lot about how the saints go well together. You'd be hard pressed to find a better pairing of saints than the mother-son team of Saints Monica and Augustine whose feast days come one after another this week.

Augustine's reckless and impious youth left his mother very often in tears as she prayed ceaselessly for him. She was encouraged through a friend who wrote that surely a "child of so many tears" would not be lost. Even when it would have been easy to despair, Monica held on with faith that God was working on her son in his own time.

Because of our BOGO sale you can grab this holy pair for the price of a single charm! There are plenty of saints in heaven who, like these two, show how holy families and holy friendships can draw us all up toward heaven together.