ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 7th 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 ILYA OF NOVGOROD, BISHOP
Saint Ilya was appointed bishop of Novgorod in 1165. He carried out a number of construction projects in Novgorod along with his brother Grigorii, who succeeded him as archbishop (1186–1193).
FLYING TO JERUSALEM AND BACK
Ilya appears in a number of medieval tales as the quintessential archbishop of Novgorod. The most famous tale depicts him conquering a devil and forcing it to transform itself into a horse and fly him to Jerusalem and back in a single night. In Jerusalem, he took the measurements of the Holy Sepulchre.
A NEW SARCOPHAGUS
Ilya died on September 7, 1186, and was buried in the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom. His relics were desecrated during the Soviet anti-religious campaigns in April 1919. They are now in a different sarcophagus with a sarcophagial effigy (from the 1990s) covering it.
Ilya was canonised at the Moscow Council of 1547. His feast day is September 7 in the Julian calendar and September 20 in the Gregorian.
(Information from Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_(Archbishop_of_Novgorod)
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