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The cast-cement sculpture of Saint Monica of Hippo is approximately 10 ft (3.0 m) tall and rests on a concrete base that is approximately 6 ft (1.8 m) tall. (Father Juan Crespí visited the nearby Tongva Sacred Springs on an expedition in 1769; the scattered pools of flowing water reminded him of Monica’s tears for her son Augustine, of later Confessions fame. The pre-statehood Rancho Boca de Santa Monica and Rancho San Vicente y Santa Monica, and eventually the city, all took the name of the Roman Catholic Saint.)
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