ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY
Saints celebrated on the 9th of January
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 MARCELLINUS OF ANCONA, BISHOP
St Marcellinus was a native of Ancona who succeeded St Traso as Bishop of that See (A.D. 550).
HE EXTINGUISHED A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE WITH A BOOK OF THE GOSPELS
By his prayers he relieved his people from the attack of the Goths under Totila. He is also said to have extinguished with a Book of the Gospels a destructive fire which was threatening to devastate the whole town.
A TREASURED RELIC
The Sacred volume was treasured as a relic in the Cathedral of Ancona, where the remains of St Marcellinus repose together with those of the other patron saints of the city.
(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)
- St Marcellinus' prayers to the Lord are asked against fire. -
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