ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 6th 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 ELEUTHERIUS, ABBOT
A wonderful simplicity and spirit of compunction were the distinguishing virtues of Saint Eleutherius.
He was chosen abbot of St Mark’s, near Spoleto, and favoured by God with the gift of miracles.
HIS POWERFUL PRAYERS
His prayers healed a child possessed by the devil, and, on another occasion, St Eleutherius raised a dead man to life.
St Gregory the Great [relates that he,] not being able to fast on Easter-eve, on account of the extreme weakness of his breast, engaged this saint to go with him to the church of St Andrew’s and put up his prayers to God for his health, that he might join the faithful in that solemn practice of penance.
HE DIED IN ST ANDREW'S MONASTERY
Eleutherius prayed with many tears, and the pope coming out of the church, found his breast suddenly strengthened so that he was enabled to perform the fast as he desired.
Resigning his abbacy, he died in St Andrew’s monastery in Rome about the year 585. His body was afterwards translated to Spoleto.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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