Saints celebrated on the 25th 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.
ST CUCUFAS, MARTYR IN SPAIN
At Barcelona he is called St Cougat, at Ruel, near Paris, St Quiquenfat, in some other parts of France St Guinefort.
HE LEFT THE COUNTRY
He was a native of Scillite in Africa, and of one of the first families of that country.
To escape the persecution raised by Diocletian he retired with St Felix into Mauritania, and afterwards into Spain.
MARTYRDOM
He was no sooner landed at Barcelona but he was apprehended, and confessing his faith before Dacian, the cruel governor, was condemned by him, after suffering many torments, to lose his head in 304.
His companion Felix received a like crown soon after him in Gironne.
HIS RELICS
The relics of St Cucufas were brought into France in 777, and deposited in the abbey of St Denis, near Paris, in 835, where they still remain with due honour.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 📷 Choir stalls in the Abbey of St Denis)
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