ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 30th 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 ANDERS OF SLAGELSE, PRIEST
Saint Anders of Slagelse was a late 12th-century priest at St Peter's Church, Slagelse, Denmark.
According to legend, while on a pilgrimage to the holy land Anders received a vision of a man on a white horse who miraculously transported him home so that he could celebrate Easter with his parishioners. The rider then transported him to shrine of Santiago de Campostella in Spain, and then to the shrine of Saint Olaf in Norway. Upon his return to Slagelse, Anders was able to heal the lame and blind through prayer.
ANDERS WAS ABLE TO HEAL THE BLIND AND LAME THROUGH PRAYER
Anders was also reportedly a good friend of King Valdemar II, and on one occasion the king is said to have offered him as much land for his parish as he could ride around on a nine-day-old foal in the time it took the king to take a bath. Taking a bath was a tedious and time consuming task at the time, but the king doubted that Anders would be able to ride very far on the foal. Anders took up the kings offer, and he covered enough ground that a squire had to warn the king to finish his bath quickly before he lost too much land.
A SPRING EMERGED
In his haste, Anders dropped a glove near the town of Landsgrav. A spring later emerged from where his glove had fallen which was visited well into the 18th century for its healing properties. After his death in 1205, Anders was buried at St Peter's Church.
(Information from: Sct Peders Kirke, Slagelse - Illustration: The medieval Dominican Priory Church in Viborg)
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