ST MAURILIUS, BISHOP OF ANGERS - 13 SEPTEMBER

 

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 MAURILIUS, BISHOP OF ANGERS 

In the fifth century, leaving a large estate and a tender mother at Milan, in order to serve God in holy retirement, Saint Maurilius addressed himself to St Martin of Tours, by whom he was directed in the narrow path of Christian perfection. 

THE NARROW PATH OF CHRISTIAN PERFECTION

He founded a monastery on a hill called Prisciac, near the village Calon on the Loire, four miles from Angers, to which he often retired, even after he was made bishop, and where, after his death, his body rested, and was held in great veneration till it was translated from this church, which bore his name, into that of St Martin, by Neising, bishop of Angers, about the year 970. 

HIS LIFE WAS WRITTEN BY ST MAGNOBODUS

It is there exposed in a rich shrine, and has been honoured with many miracles. His life was written by St Magnobodus, bishop of Angers, about two hundred years after his death. 

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)