SAINT FEAST DAY 24 SEPTEMBER: SAINT AMA

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 24th of September

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.

SAINT AMA, VIRGIN

Saint Ama, virgin from Joinville (Jovisvilla), was the daughter of Sigmar and Luttrudis from Champagne in France, and the sister of Saint Pusinna (feast: April 23), Saint Hoyldis (April 30) and Saint Lutrudis (September 22). She had seven sisters, of which she was the oldest, all of whom consecrated themselves to God and served him in virginity. The other holy sisters were called Manegildis, Francula and Liderata. 

VERY LITTLE INFORMATION HAS BEEN PRESERVED

Very little information has been preserved and subsequently handed down to us about Saint Ama, Saint Lutrudis, (who is also known as Lintrudis or Lintrue), and their sisters. Even their age is difficult to determine. While Perierus put it in the sixth century, those who worked on the life of Saint Manegildis place the sisters in the second half of the fifth century. 

THEIR RELICS WERE TRANSLATED TO CORBEIL

It is certain that according to tradition they are regarded as a consecrated virgins who ended their pious life with holy deaths. All of them are venerated as saints. Their relics are also no longer available and are said to have been transferred to Corbeil. 

Of Lutrudis it is said that she - at least for part of her life - lived a hermit life, that she made a pilgrimage to Rome, of which she returned via Ravenna, where she is said to have cured a terminally ill girl.

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)