ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 1st 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.
BLESSED DEOBALD, PRIEST
Deobaldus' feast day is December 1. His name is most probably derived from the old German word for "leader of the people".
According to Murer's "Helvetia sacra", which counts him among the "Blessed", Deobald was a priest and forest hermit in the parish of Ebikon near Lucerne.
He died on December 1, 1340 and was buried under the pulpit in the parish church of that village.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)
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