ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 3rd of December
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 EMMA OF LESUM, COUNTESS
Saint Emma, also known as Hemma or Imma (c. 975-980 - December 3, 1038) was a countess popularly venerated as a saint for her good works.
GOOD WORKS
She was born into the Saxon noble family of the Immedinger, descendants of Widukind. She married Liudger, a son of the Saxon duke Hermann Billung and brother of Bernard I, Duke of Saxony. Emperor Otto III made the couple a present in 1001 of the palatium in Stiepel, where in 1008 Emma had a church built dedicated to the Virgin Mary, which later became a popular place of pilgrimage.
SHE HAD A CHURCH BUILT
After the early death of her husband in 1011, Emma withdrew to the estate of Lesum and with her fortune generously supported Bremen Cathedral, and granted the cathedral chapter her property at Stiepel with its church, although her greatest care was for the poor.
SHE WAS BURIED IN BREMEN CATHEDRAL
Emma was later venerated as a saint, although there is no evidence that she was formally ever either beatified or canonised. She was buried in Bremen Cathedral. Her feast day is December 3 (or April 17, although some sources name April 19 instead).
(Information from Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_of_Lesum)
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