Saints celebrated on the 21st 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.
ST LEUFREDUS, ABBOT
Saint Leufredus [Leufroi] was a native of the territory of Evreux, and performed his studies partly in the monastery of St Taurinus at Evreux.
Hearing the great sanctity of B. Sidonius, abbot near Rouen, much spoken of, he repaired to him, and received the monastic habit at his hands.
HE RECEIVED THE MONASTIC HABIT
By the advice of St Anshert, archbishop of Rouen, he returned to his own country, and on a spot two leagues from Evreux, upon the Eure, where St Owen had formerly erected a cross and a chapel, he built a monastery in honour of the cross, which he called the cross of St Owen, but it is long since called the cross of St Leufroi.
FASTING, WATCHING, PRAYER
Fasting, watching, and prayer were the constant exercises of his whole life, especially during forty years that he governed his monastery.
He died happily after receiving the holy viaticum in 738, and was succeeded in the abbacy by his brother St Agofroi.
THE RELICS
In the incursions of the Normans in the ninth century, the monks fled for refuge to the abbey of St Germain-des-Prez at Paris, carrying with them the relics of St Owen, St Turiave, St Leufroi and St Agofroi. When they returned, they left in gratitude for their entertainment those of St Leufroi and St Turiave, which still remain in that great abbey.
St Leufroi is named in the Roman Martyrology on June 21, and honoured with an office in the new Paris Breviary.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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