ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 19th 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 LANTPERTUS, BISHOP OF FREISING
According to the "Bavaria sancta" (which cites the well-known historian Meichelbeck), Lantpertus, also called Lambertus, Bishop of Freising, was a descendant of the Count of Sempt.
Already as a young child Lantpertus is said to have denied himself milk and all food on certain days of the week, much in the same way as the holy Bishop St Nicholas did.
THREE BLIND PEOPLE MIRACULOUSLY REGAINED THEIR SIGHT
This renunciation was so pleasing to God that by means of the milk thus superfluous, three blind people miraculously regained their sight.
Since his name appears in Freising's documents prior to his elevation to the episcopal see, it is likely that he was employed by the church there beforehand, and that he became bishop afterwards by being elected by his confreres.
He ascended the episcopal chair on August 28, 938, according to Zedler and Hundius as the 14th Bishop of Freising. In 952 he was present at a synod in Augsburg.
HE WAS PRESENT AT A SYNOD IN AUGSBURG
During his reign, the savage Hungarians marched against Emperor Otto, who, on August 10, 955, took part in the great battle on the Lechfeld near Augsburg. Through the prayers and supplications of Augsburg's St Ulrich, Otto defeated them.
THE INVADERS SET FIRE TO THE CHURCHES
On their way to, however, the invaders had also come to Freising, where they had raged for six days and had, along with the city, also set fire to the churches of St Vitus and St Stephen.
ANOTHER FAMOUS MIRACLE
Only the cathedral on the mountain was spared, because a thick fog had covered the mountain, so that the enemies could not even set eyes on it. According to other sources, the Hungarians did attempt to set the cathedral on fire, but either it did not catch, or - as it is related in one particular source - the fog that suddenly fell in from all sides kept the flame out so that it could not harm the Church in any way. This miracle is attributed to the prayers of the holy Bishop Lantpertus. Indeed, on certain holy illustrations Lantpertus is therefore depicted praying in front of the cathedral church, while the city below is on fire.
A DOCUMENT FROM THE YEAR 950 IS PRESERVED
There exists a document from the year 950 by which Emperor Otto I confirms the donation of the Moosburg Abbey and estate in Vöhringen, which was made by Arnulph.
HIS HOLY DEATH
After Lantpertus had headed the diocese for 19 years, he died on September 19 (some say, on September 18), 955 or, as most have, in the year 957.
HIS HUMILITY HAS BEEN ESPECIALLY PRAISED
Many miracles do happen at his grave in the cathedral church in Freising. Among his virtues, his humility has been especially praised.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)
Comments
Post a Comment