ST MANSUET, BISHOP OF TOUL - 3 SEPTEMBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 3rd 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 MANSUET, BISHOP OF TOUL 

Saint Mansuet was the first Bishop of Toul in Lorrain, and Apostle of that part of the Ancient Belgic Gaul. 

SOME HAVE THOUGHT HIM A DISCIPLE OF ST PETER THE APOSTLE

Some have thought him a disciple of St Peter the apostle; but Limpen, the Bollandist, shows that he could not have founded this church before the reign of Constantine, and that he flourished in his and his son’s time, and died about the year 375, as appears from the catalogue of his successors in that see. 

HIS RELICS WERE SOLEMNLY TRANSLATED

St Gerard, bishop of Toul in 971, made a solemn translation of his relics, repaired his church, and founded under his patronage the monastery which bears his name. 

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)