ST CLAUDIA, WIDOW - 27 DECEMBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 27th 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.

ST CLAUDIA

Saint Claudia was the mother of the holy virgin and martyr St Eugenia. Some authors mention her name on January 12.

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)

"Eugenia converted her father unto the Christian faith. And he was after an holy bishop, and at the hour that he sang his Mass he was beheaded for the faith of Jesus Christ; and the lady that had falsely accused Eugenia was burnt with fire with all her party. 

"And after that, Claudia and her children came to Rome, and much people were by them converted, and many virgins by Eugenia, which Eugenia was much tormented in divers manners, and at the last by the sword accomplished her martyrdom, and thus made the offering of her proper body to our Lord Jesus Christ, qui est benedictus in secula seculorum. Amen."

(From the Golden Legend by Bl. Jacopo de Voragine)

PRAYER:

O God, who gladden us each year by the feast of blessed Claudia, graciously grant that, as we rejoice in her merits, we may be inspired by her example. 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.

➡️ Saint Bartholomew, Apostle, from the Golden Legend