ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 9th 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 OSMANNA OF IRELAND, VIRGIN
Saint Osmanna was descended from an illustrious family in Ireland, and retired to France to live in a state of virginity.
She fixed her residence in Lesser-Brittany, served God there in solitude with great fervour, and died near St Brieuc, about the seventh age.
HER RELICS WERE KEPT IN THE CHURCH OF ST DENIS
For several centuries her relics were kept in a shrine in a chapel dedicated to God under her patronage in the abbatial church of St Denis near Paris; but part of them was dispersed by the Calvinists in 1567.
She is mentioned in several Martyrologies under this day.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 📷 Abbey of St Denis)
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