SAINT HEIMERAD, RELIGIOUS - 28 JUNE

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE

Saints celebrated on the 28th of June

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.

SAINT HEIMERAD, RELIGIOUS

The main source for his life is the biography written by the monk Ekkebert of Hersfeld between 1072 and 1090.

HE BECAME A MONK IN HERSFELD ABBEY

Born about 970 in the Baden region, Heimerad undertook pilgrimages in Germany, Italy and Palestine. After his return to Germany he became a monk in Hersfeld Abbey. He withdrew into a hermitage on the Hasunger Berg (today Burghasungen in Zierenberg). 

He came to be revered as a saint and his advice was sought by the great: Empress Kunigunde, Bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn and Aribo, Archbishop of Mainz. He died in 1019, on June 28, which is his feast day.

A CHURCH WAS BUILT OVER HIS GRAVE

Aribo, Archbishop of Mainz, had a church built over Heimerad's grave on the Hasunger Berg two years after his death, in 1021, which served as the nucleus of Hasungen Abbey, founded in 1074. 

Pilgrimages to his grave reached their high point in the second half of the 11th century, when Hasungen ranked as the most visited place of pilgrimage in Germany next to the grave of Sebaldus in Nuremberg. 

(Information from Wikipedia -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimerad)

➡️ Blessed Heimerad, Religious