ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 17th 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 PETER ARBUES
Saint Peter Arbues was born in 1441 (or 1442) and died on September 17, 1485. His father, a nobleman, was Antonio Arbues, and his mother’s name was Sancia Ruiz.
He studied philosophy, probably at Huesca, but later went to Bologna, where in the Spanish college of St Clement he was regarded as a model of learning and piety, and was graduated in theology and law.
Returning to Spain he became a canon regular at Saragossa, where he made his religious profession in 1474.
HE PERFORMED HIS DUTIES WITH JUSTICE
About that time Ferdinand and Isabella had obtained from Sixtus IV a Bull to establish in their kingdom a tribunal for searching out heretics, and especially Jews who after having received baptism had relapsed openly or secretly into Judaism; these were known as Marranos. The famous Thomas Torquemada, in 1483, was appointed grand inquisitor over Castile and, being acquainted with the learning and virtue of Peter Arbues, named him inquisitor provincial in the Kingdom of Aragon (1484). Peter performed the duties with zeal and justice. Although the enemies of the Inquisition accuse him of cruelty, it is certain that not a single sentence of death can be traced to him. The Marranos, however, whom he had punished hated and resolved to do away with him.
THEY ATTACKED HIM
One night while kneeling in prayer before the altar of Our Lady in the metropolitan church, where he used to recite the office with his brother canons, they attacked him, and hired assassins inflicted several wounds from which he died two days after. He was canonised by Pius IX, in 1867.
(From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)
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