ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST
Saints celebrated on the 31st of August
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 PAULINUS OF TRIER, BISHOP
Saint Paulinus, bishop of Trier [Treves, Triers], highly extolled by St Athanasius, Saint Hilary, and St Jerome, suffered grievous persecutions under the Arian emperor Constantius, and was banished by him into Phrygia, where he died.
A BEAUTIFUL CHURCH BEARS HIS NAME
A beautiful church bears his name out of the walls of Triers, served by a college of canons, and enriched with relics of many martyrs crowned under the president Rictius Varus and the emperor Maximian Herculeus.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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