ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 12th 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 SACERDOS OF LYONS, BISHOP
This holy Bishop of Lyons is said to have descended from a noble family in Lyons in 486.
In 544 he became a bishop and built two churches in his episcopal city, one in honour of St Paul, the other in honour of St Eulalia, later called St George.
IMPORTANT EVENTS
The following dates of his life are particularly to be emphasised:
- King Childebert used him to send an embassy to King Athanagild in Spain (disputed).
- In 549 he attended the 5th Synod of Orleans.
- He recommends his nephew Nicetius as successor to the king.
- He dies in Paris in 551.
HE WAS INTERRED IN THE "CHURCH OF THE APOSTLES"
Baronius states that St Sacerdos was 30th or 32nd, according to other sources he was the 27th bishop of Lyons. He was interred in the church then called "Church of the Apostles", which is now known as St Nizier Church.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)
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