Saints celebrated on the 24th 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 KINGA, VIRGIN
Saint Kinga (Cunegundes) was daughter of Bela IV, king of Hungary, and Mary, daughter to Theodorus Lascharis, emperor of Constantinople: was married in 1239 to Boleslas the Chaste, sovereign of Lesser Poland, or of the palatinates of Cracow, Sandomire, and Lublin; but by mutual consent lived in perpetual chastity.
PERPETUAL CHASTITY
Prayer, mortification, alms, and daily attendance on the poor in the hospitals, employed her time.
SHE TOOK THE VEIL IN SANDECZ
Boleslas dying in 1279, she took the veil in the great monastery of Sandecz, which she had lately built for nuns of the Order of St Clare.
HER CANONISATION
She died on July 24, 1292. She was venerated with singular piety in the diocese of Cracow and several other parts of Poland, and her name was solemnly inscribed among the saints by Alexander VIII in 1690.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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