ST MARTIN OF TRIER, BISHOP AND MARTYR - 19 JULY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY

Saints celebrated on the 19th 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 MARTIN OF TRIER, BISHOP AND MARTYR

Saint Martin of Treves [Trier] was a third century Bishop and Martyr (Memorial: July 19). 

WAS ST MARTIN OF TREVES A MARTYR, THOUGH?

The Roman Martyrology styles this holy Bishop a Martyr, and there has always been a tradition that when the Emperor Septimus Severus (A.D. 193-211) was laying waste the churches and putting Christians to death, among the many Bishops who laid down their lives for the Faith was a Martin, Bishop of Treves. 

NO CERTAIN RECORD 

We have, however, no certain record of his martyrdom. The records at Treves give him as the tenth Bishop of that See, and state that he was appointed to it at a time of great danger, and that he passed away about A.D. 210. 

(Information from The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)