ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 13th 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 LIDORIUS, BISHOP OF TOURS
Saint Lidorius, also Litorius, Litorus, Ledorius, Lidorus and Lictor is called in French St-Lidoire. He was the second Bishop of Tours in France, was a native of this city and an extremely religious man.
AN EXTREMELY RELIGIOUS MAN
After the first bishop, St Gratianus, had died, the episcopal chair had remained vacant for 37 years, until our St Lidorius became his successor in 337 or 338.
St Gregory says that St Lidorius had built the first church in his episcopal city and created the first basilica (the latter was converted from what was originally the house of a senator) because there were already several Christians there.
HE HELD THE EPISCOPAL OFFICE FOR 33 YEARS
At that time St Martin, the famous Bishop of Tours who succeeded him, had already begun to preach.
St Lidorius died godly around the year 370 or 371 (after having held the episcopal office for 33 years). According to the report of St Gregory he was buried in the above-mentioned basilica, which then bore his name for a long time.
HIS RELICS
As the Bollandists also note, his relics stayed there until the city of Tours was overrun by the Calvinists in 1562, who then scattered his relics. According to Butler St Perpetius, the 6th Bishop of Tours, introduced a vigil on the feast of St Lidorius.
His name is not included in the Roman Martyrology; the Bollandists have listed his name on September 13.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858 - 📷 1. Tours Cathedral, 2. Cloisters of the Cathedral of Tours)
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