ST SEQUANUS, ABBOT - 19 SEPTEMBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 19th 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 SEQUANUS, ABBOT 

Saint Sequanus (Seine) [Sigo, Sigon] was born in the little town of Maymont in the extremity of Burgundy. His parents gave him an excellent education, and permitted him to embrace an ecclesiastical state, to which he was inclined from his infancy. 

HE BECAME A PRIEST

Having received the clerical tonsure from the hands of his pastor, the sanctity of his life soon recommended him to the Bishop of Langres, who promoted him to the priesthood. 

HE QUITTED THE COMMERCE OF THE WORLD

The saint having suffered some persecution from persons who had envied his merit, he took occasion from thence to execute a resolution he had long before formed, of quitting the commerce of the world; and put himself under the direction of Abbot John, who governed the monastery of Reome, in Auxois, since called Moutier St Jean.

THE PRACTICE OF ALL RELIGIOUS VIRTUES

Here he perfected himself in the study of the holy scriptures, and in the practice of all religious virtues. 

After some time he built a monastery in the forest of Segestre, near the source of the river Seine, which still bears his name.

THE MONASTERY

The regular discipline which he established there, rendered it famous, and drew to it a number of disciples. God was pleased to honour him with the gift of miracles which added new lustre to his sanctity. 

He died, according to the most probable opinion, on September 19, about the year 580; and his relics are kept in his monastery.

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)