Saints celebrated on the 16th of July
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 REINELDIS, VIRGIN AND MARTYR
St Reineldis, born in 680, was the daughter of Duke Witger and Amalburga After the children had grown up, the parents, by mutual agreement, went into their respective monasteries and renounced their titles and properties.
Reineldis also lived a life of devotion, and after returning home from a pilgrimage, she is said to have built a cell in Saintes by Hal in Brabant in Belgium. There she lived as a hermit.
THEY WERE MARTYRED BY THE HUNS
In 680, when the Huns overrun the country and all the people fled, she was left alone with the deacon Grimoald and his servant Gondulf. The wild Gentiles attacked them in the chapel, where they were praying, and beheaded them.
St Reineldis is portrayed being slain with a sword. She is the patron saint invoked against festering and open wounds and against eye ailments, especially inflammatory conditions.
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