ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 11th 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.
ST MENNAS, MARTYR
The edicts of Diocletian were rigorously executed in the East, when Saint Mennas or Menas, an Egyptian by birth, a soldier in the Roman troops, then quartered at Cotyaeus in Phrygia, was apprehended, and, boldly confessing his faith, cruelly scourged, then tormented in the most inhuman manner on the rack, and at length beheaded, by the command of Pyrrhus, the president, probably about the year 304.
HE WAS TORMENTED IN THE MOST INHUMANE MANNER
His name has been always very famous in the calendars of the church, especially in the East. The first acts of this martyr were translated in Surius, who borrowed them from Metaphrastes. They begin, [Greek], and are warmly defended and extolled by Falconius. The second acts in Surius, ascribed to Timothy, patriarch of Alexandria, in 380, deserve little credit. Lambecius mentions other acts of this saint.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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