SS. FELIX AND ADAUCTUS, MARTYRS - 30 AUGUST

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST

Saints celebrated on the 30th 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.

SS. FELIX AND ADAUCTUS, MARTYRS  

Saint Felix was a holy priest in Rome, no less happy in his life and virtue than in his name. Being apprehended in the beginning of Diocletian’s persecution, he was put to cruel torments, which he suffered with admirable constancy, and was at length condemned to lose his head. 

"I CONFESS THE SAME JESUS CHRIST"

As he was going to execution he was met by a stranger, who, being a Christian, was so inflamed at the sight of the martyr, and the lively prospect of the glory to which he was hastening, that he was not able to contain himself, but cried out aloud: "I confess the same law which this man professeth; I confess the same Jesus Christ; and it is also my desire to lay down my life in this cause."

HE WAS CALLED "ADAUCTUS"

The magistrates hearing this, caused him forthwith to be seized, and the martyrs were both beheaded together about the year 303. The name of this latter not being known, he was called by the Christians Adauctus, because he was joined to Felix in martyrdom. 

These holy martyrs are commemorated in the Sacramentary of St Gregory the Great, and many ancient calendars. F. Stilting the Bollandist asserts the authenticity of their acts.

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 📷 Here SS. Felix and Adauctus are pictured with Our Lord and Our Lady)