ST ONESIPHORUS, MARTYR - 6 SEPTEMBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 6th 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 ONESIPHORUS, MARTYR 

On September 6 we commemorate Saints Onesiphorus and Porphyrius, Martyrs, who lived in the first century. 

What Holy Scripture tells us of Onesiphorus is to be read in St Paul‘s Second Epistle to Timothy (2:16-18). Saint Porphyrius was a member of his household. 

THEY WERE SEIZED AS PART OF THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS

They laboured in the work of spreading the Gospel until towards the end of the first century. 

Then, tradition alleges that, because of their Christian faith, they were seized by agents of the persecuting Emperor Domitian somewhere on the Hellespont, tied to wild horses and so torn to pieces. 

(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate - 🎨 Sosthenes, Apollos, Cephas, Tychicus, Epaphroditus, Caesar, and Onesiphorus)