ST JOHN OF REOMAY, ABBOT - 28 JANUARY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY

Saints celebrated on the 28th 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 JOHN OF REOMAY, ABBOT  

[Now called Moutier-Saint-Jean, in Burgundy.]  Saint John of Reomay was a native of the diocese of Langres, and took the monastic habit at Lerins. 

HE SETTLED THE ABBEY UNDER THE RULE OF ST MACARIUS

He was called into his own country by the bishop of Langres to found the abbey from which he received his surname. 

He settled it under the rule of St Macarius, governed it many years with great reputation of sanctity, and was rendered famous by miracles. 

HIS HOLY DEATH

He went to God about the year 540, being almost one hundred and twenty years old, and was one of the holy institutors of the monastic state in France. 

St Gregory of Tours gives an account of him in the eighty-seventh chapter of his book, on the glory of Confessors. His life was also compiled by Jonas, the disciple of Columban, extant in Bollandus. 

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)