ST ERASTUS, BISHOP AND MARTYR - 26 JULY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY

Saints celebrated on the 26th 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 ERASTUS, BISHOP AND MARTYR 

Saint Erastus was the Treasurer of the city of Corinth (Romans 16:23), converted by Saint Paul and one of his helpers in the Apostolate (Acts 19:22), especially at Corinth (2 Timothy 4:20). 

HE BECAME BISHOP

The Greek tradition is that he became Bishop of Philippi Paneas in Palestine. That of the Latins that his See was Philippi in Macedonia, and that he in the end was put to death for the Faith. 

(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate - 🎨 Erastus, Olympas, Rhodion, Sosipater, Quartus and Tertius)

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