ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST
Saints celebrated on the 14th of August
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 WERENFRID, PRIEST AND CONFESSOR
[A patron saint of those suffering from gout] Saint Werenfrid was an English monk, and, according to Mabillon, accompanied, or, as the Bollandists rather think, followed St Willibrord into Friesland, and assisted him in preaching the gospel.
St Werenfrid planted the faith in the isle or territory of Betawe, or Batavia, in Holland, lying between the Rhine, the Leck, the Maese, and Merve, especially at Elste, a town in that territory, where he was buried.
PRAYERS AT HIS TOMB
His tomb was famous for pilgrimages, and the miraculous cures of sick persons, especially those afflicted with the gout.
Baldericus, the fifteenth bishop of Utrecht, founded there a collegiate church in his honour, with eight canonries.
HIS FEAST DAY
St Werenfrid is honoured in Holland on August 14. See his life in Surius, and much more correctly in the Bollandists, on August 28.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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