ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 15th 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 MALO, BISHOP
Saint Malo (Maclou, Machutus), first bishop of Aleth in Brittany, was a native of England, and cousin-german to St Sampson and St Magloire.
At an early age he was sent for his education to Ireland, where he made a rapid progress in learning and virtue.
HE RETIRED INTO BRITTANY
Being ordained priest, he was soon after elected to a bishopric by the suffrages of the people: but he declined that dignity, and retired into Brittany, where he put himself under the direction of a holy recluse named Aron, near Aleth.
About the year 541 he was made bishop of this city, and died on November 15, 565.
IT IS FROM HIM THAT THE CITY OF ST MALO HAS ITS NAME
It is from him the city of St Malo has its name; for his sacred remains were carried thither after Aleth had been reduced to a village, and the episcopal see transferred to St Malo.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 📷 Church St Vincent in Saint Malo)
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