ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 9th of September
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.
SS. ALEXANDER AND FAUSTINA, MARTYRS
Saints Alexander and Faustina were martyrs, but nothing is known about them.
THEIR RELICS WERE DISCOVERED IN 1654
In 1654 their holy relics, with the usual signs of martyrdom, were discovered in the churchyard (coemeterium) of St Cyriaca in Rome.
THEY NOW REST IN THE CHURCH OF THE MINOR BROTHERS
Two years later they were transferred to Thenae in Belgium, where they were buried in the church of the Minor Brothers.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)
PRAYER:
Grant to your Church, we beseech you, O Lord, through the intercession of your holy martyrs Alexander and Faustina, not to think high-mindedly, but to grow in humility pleasing to you; that, despising what is base, she may with unbounded love diligently do whatever is right. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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