ST AUTONOMUS, BISHOP AND MARTYR - 12 SEPTEMBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 12th 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.

ST AUTONOMUS, BISHOP AND MARTYR 

Saint Autonomus was a fourth century bishop saint; he is commemorated on September 12.  

HE MADE CONVERTS IN BITHYNIA

Alleged by the Greeks to have been an Italian Bishop, who, to escape the fury of the persecution under Diocletian, fled into Bithynia in Asia Minor, where he made many converts to Christianity and afterwards suffered death for the Faith. 

HE AFTERWARDS SUFFERED DEATH FOR THE FAITH

This must have been about A.D. 300. The Life of St Autonomus we possess was not written till the sixth century.

(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)