ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 24th 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.
BL. ADALSINDIS, VIRGIN
Blessed Adalsindis (Adelsindis) was the youngest daughter of St Adabald and St Rictrudis. She seemed to have sucked in the spirit of godliness with her mother's milk and therefore, from a most tender age, despised all claims to the honour of the world.
SHE TOOK THE VEIL
A worthy imitator of the holiness of her family, she took the veil in the Hamay Monastery, which had been founded by her aunt, St Gertraud. At that time, her sister, St Eusebia, was abbess there. Her holy death occurred in A.D. 715.
HER FEAST DAY
Her feast is entered as December 25 in the menologies of the Benedictine order to which she belonged. Her mother's feast day is May 12.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)
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