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 ATHENODORUS, MARTYR
Saint Athenodorus was a martyr in Mesopotamia, who in the Diocletian persecution, was sentenced to death by fire and other tortures by the governor Eleusius. Finally, when these did not damage him, he was condemned to death with the sword.
AFTER THAT INCIDENT, NOBODY WANTED TO BEHEAD HIM
When the executioner dropped dead on the ground while carrying out this judgment and no one else dared to cut his head off, St Athenodorus fell asleep in the Lord while he was still absorbed in prayer, awaiting the execution. This is what we are told by the Roman Martyrology on November 11.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)
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