ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 27th of November
Prayer to the Angels and the Saints
Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation.
In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven.
Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses.
Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so that, after sharing their faith on earth, we may also experience their peace in heaven. Amen.
BLESSED BERNARDINE OF FOSSA, RELIGIOUS
He was of the Order of Friars Minor, a historian and ascetical writer, was born at Fossa, in the Diocese of Aquila, Italy, in 1420; and died at Aquila, November 27, 1503.
Blessed Bernardine belonged to the ancient and noble family of the Amici, and sometimes bears the name of Aquilanus on account of his long residence and death in the town of Aquila.
HE RECEIVED HIS EARLY TRAINING AT AQUILA
He received his early training at Aquila and thence went to Perugia to study canon and civil law. On March 12 in the year 1445, he received the Seraphic habit from St James of the Marches who was then preaching a course of Lenten sermons at Perugia.
From the time of his entrance into religion, Bernardine never ceased to advance in religious perfection, and the success which crowned his missionary labours throughout Italy, as well as in Dalmatia and Serigonia, bears witness to the eminent sanctity of his life.
THE EMINENT SANCTITY OF HIS LIFE
Bernardine fulfilled the office of provincial of the province of St Bernardine and of the province of Dalmatia and Bosnia, and would have been chosen Bishop of Aquila had not his humility forbidden him to accept this dignity. His cult was approved by Leo XII, March 26, 1828.
The writings of Bl. Bernardine include several sermons and divers ascetical and historical opuscules; among the latter, the, "Chronica Fratrum Minorum Observantiae" deserves special mention.
(From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)
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