ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 6th 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 WINOCUS, ABBOT
Saint Winocus (Winoc, Winochus), (Translation of relics: September 18)
This holy Abbot of Wormhout (Woromholtum) was a son of King Juthael or Judicael (the genealogy is not entirely reliable) of Brittany (Armorica). and nephew of St Judocus (Inadoens).
HE ERECTED A MONASTERY
The place was owned by a noble named Heremarus, which had been given as a gift to Abbot Bertinus. Thereupon, Abbot Bertinus, who planned to erect a monastery there, sent the saint, his experienced student, to execute this task, with three friars to accompany him: Quadanocus, Ingenocus and Madocus
HE SHONE WITH EVER NEW VIRTUES
Even as a youth, says Winocus' biographer, he shone with ever new virtues, and lived in the world as if he were outside the world.
After the monastery in honour of St Martinus was completed and consecrated, St Winocus began his ministry. He practiced with particular zeal the care of the sick and hospitality - which is why he built a hospital next to his monastery. The biography also tells us that God adorned him with miraculous gifts while he was still alive.
THE CARE OF THE SICK AND HOSPITALITY
He reached an old age, which pained him because his spirit was constantly in the contemplation of God while he was still physically on a pilgrimage far away from him (jam enim mente Deumvidebat, a quo se in corpore peregrinari dolebat).
His longing was fulfilled on November 6, 717. Numerous miracles took place at his grave.
NUMEROUS MIRACLES
The monastery was later moved to Mont St Winoc (mons S. Winoci), and in A.D. 900, the relics of our saint were transferred to the new place by Baldewin, known as the Bald.
St Winocus is usually depicted as a royal prince, as he is taken into the monastery by the abbot Bertinus, or with a hand mill that moves by itself while he is engrossed in prayer.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)
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