ST OUDOCEUS, BISHOP - 2 JULY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY

Saints celebrated on the 2nd 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 OUDOCEUS, BISHOP

(Third Bishop of Llandaff) This saint, dedicated to God from his infancy by his parents, was reared in Christian principles under the inspection of his uncle St Theliau, bishop of Llandaff; and succeeded him in this see about the year 580. 

THE KING HELD HIM IN HIGHEST VENERATION

Mauric, king of Glamorgan, held him in the highest veneration, and assisted him in all his endeavours to promote the glory of God; being, however, excommunicated by the saint for assassinating a prince called Cynedu, he, by his humble submission and penance, was at length restored to the communion of the church. 

HIS FEAST

St Oudoceus dying about the end of the sixth century, is mentioned in the English Calendars on July 2.

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 📷 Llandaff Cathedral)