BL. NICHOLAS SAVOURET AND BL. CLAUDE BEGUIGNOT - 16 JULY

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY

Saints celebrated on the 16th of July

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. NICHOLAS SAVOURET AND BL. CLAUDE BEGUIGNOT, PRIESTS AND MARTYRS 

Today we remember the two holy priests who died aboard a prison ship anchored off Rochefort, France: Blesseds Nicolas Savouret, of the Conventual Order of Friars Minor (born February 2, 1773 in Jouvelle, France, died July 7, 1794 on the prison hulk Deux-Associés, in Rochefort, France) and Claude Beguignot, of the Carthusian Order (born June 19, 1736 in Langres, France, died July 16, 1794 on the prison hulk Deux-Associés, in Rochefort), priests and martyrs, who, during the French Revolution, locked up in hatred of the priesthood in a sordid galley, perished there consumed by illness.

They were beatified on October 1, 1995 by Pope John Paul II. 

(📷 An early Victorian prison hulk)

PRAYER:

Grant to your Church, we beseech you, O Lord, through the intercession of your holy martyrs Nicholas Savouret and Claude Beguignot, not to think high-mindedly, but to grow in humility pleasing to you; that, despising what is base, she may with unbounded love diligently do whatever is right. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.