ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY
Saints celebrated on the 4th 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.
ST GREGORY, BISHOP OF LANGRES
Saint Gregory of Langres was one of the principal senators of Autun, and continued from the death of his wife a widower till the age of fifty-seven, at which time, for his singular virtues, he was compelled from his private penitential life, and consecrated bishop of Langres, which see he governed with admirable prudence and zeal thirty-three years, sanctifying his pastoral labours by the most profound humility, assiduous prayer, and extraordinary abstinence and mortification.
EXTRAORDINARY ABSTINENCE AND MORTIFICATION
An incredible number of infidels were converted by him from idolatry, and worldly Christians from their disorders. He died about the beginning of the year 541, some days after the Epiphany.
HIS DEVOTION TO ST BENIGNUS
Out of devotion to St Benignus, he desired to be buried near that saint’s tomb at Dijon, which town was then in the diocese of Langres, and had often been the place of his residence. This was executed by his virtuous son Tetricus, who succeeded him in his bishopric. January 4 seems to have been the day of the translation of his relics. He is mentioned in the Roman Martyrology. His miracles are recorded by St Gregory of Tours.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 📷
Interior of the Cathedral St Benignus, Dijon)
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