Saints celebrated on the 2nd 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 MARCELLINUS AND ST PETER, MARTYRS
Peter, an Exorcist, and Marcellinus, a priest under whose direction he exercised his ministry, were prominent among Roman Christians at the beginning of the fourth century.
Peter, first cast into prison, brought about by his patience the conversion of his gaoler with his family. Marcellinus baptised them. This led to his own arrest.
THEY WERE SECRETLY EXECUTED
Condemned to death, they were secretly executed in a forest at a place unknown to other Christians (A.D. 304). However, their bodies were discovered and interred in the Catacombs. Their tomb was adorned with a metrical epitaph later in the century by Pope St Damasus, who states that he had heard the details of their Passion from the executioner who had beheaded them. Their remains, many centuries afterwards, were translated to Frankfurt in Germany.
(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)
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