ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY
Saints celebrated on the 2nd of January
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. MARTYRS FOR THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
On [January 2] are commemorated many holy martyrs, throughout the provinces of the Roman empire; who, when Diocletian, in 303, commanded the holy scriptures, wherever found, to be burned, chose rather to suffer torments and death than to be accessary to their being destroyed by surrendering them into the hands of the professed enemies of their Author.
SOME OF THE SOURCES MENTIONING THEIR STORY
Baron. in annal. et annot. in Martyr. Rom. Eus. l. 8. c. 2. H. Vales. not. ib. p. 163. Ruinart, in Acta SS. Saturn, &c. and S. Felicis. Fleury Mœurs des Chrét. p. 45. Tillem. Pers. de Diocl. art. 10. t. 5. Lactant. de mort. Pers. c. 15 et 18, cum not. Baluz. etc.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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