ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST
Saints celebrated on the 23rd of August
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.
SS. ARCHELAUS, QUIRICUS AND MAXIMUS, MARTYRS
These third century martyrs are commemorated on August 23:
Archelaus was a deacon; Maximus, a priest; and Quiricus, or Quiriacus, a Bishop. They suffered death for their Faith in Christ, at Ostia, at the mouth of the Tiber, in one of the persecutions, about the middle of the third century.
Their names appear in all the ancient Martyrologies.
THEY SEEM TO HAVE BEEN SCOURGED AND BEHEADED
They seem to have been scourged and beheaded without any of the horrible and exquisite tortures to which Christians were often subjected, even in defiance of the Imperial Law ordering simple decapitation.
A CERTAIN NUMBER OF LAYMEN SUFFERED WITH THEM
With St Archelaus and the two mentioned above, there were also a certain number of laymen who suffered with them.
(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate - 📷 Reconstruction of the ancient harbour of Ostia)
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