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.
ST APOLLINARIS OF REIMS, MARTYR
Saint Apollinaris was a 3rd century martyr; his memorial is on August 23.
A gaoler at Reims (France), who, on witnessing the constancy of St Timothy and the heavenly visions with which he was comforted, threw himself at his feet and begged to be made a Christian.
HE BEGGED TO BE MADE A CHRISTIAN
They were both beheaded by the Governor Lampadus, who is said to have been in punishment struck by lightning, obsessed by a devil, and in the end suffocated by the Evil One.
MANY CHURCHES WERE ERECTED IN HONOUR OF ST APOLLINARIS
Many churches were erected in honour of St Apollinaris. and many miracles wrought at the tomb at Reims of the Martyr and his fellow-sufferer.
Some assert that St Apollinaris is a Saint of the first century, but it is now commonly admitted that he is to be dated two hundred years later.
(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)
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