ST HOGERUS, BISHOP - 20 DECEMBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 20th 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 HOGERUS, ARCHBISHOP OF HAMBURG-BREMEN

Saint Hogerus, also called  Hoger, Hojerus and Hotgerns, was first coadjutor, then successor to Archbishop Adelgarius of Hamburg-Bremen. 

HE HAD BEEN A MONK AT CORVEY

From his earlier life we ​​only know that he was a monk at Corvey. Here, according to the Bollandists (Aug. III. 211), one could see his picture in 1685 among the statues of other saints and blessed who had lived in the monastery, with the title of "St Hogeri Archiep. Brem.". 

Bucelin calls him "saint'. The old church registers of the (former) Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen also call him "holy and chosen". They add that he watched over church discipline with great severity. 

HE WAS ARCHBISCHOP UNTIL A.D. 915

He was Archbishop from 909–915. The last years of his life were marred by war and the plagues of war, especially the devastation of churches and monasteries. In the midst of these severe tribulations, the Lord took him to himself. 

He died on December 20, 916 in Bremen and was interred in the church of St Michael, Bremen. 

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - 📷 Corvey)