ST SYAGRIUS, BISHOP OF AUTUN - 27 AUGUST

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST

Saints celebrated on the 27th 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.

SAINT SYAGRIUS, BISHOP OF AUTUN 

He is supposed to be by birth from Gaul, and was raised to the see of Autun about the year 560. He was present at almost all the councils that were held in France in his time, whether for the preservation of faith or morals. 

THE BAPTISM OF CLOTAIRE II.

He was one of the bishops to whose prudence was committed the difficult business of re-establishing tranquillity in the monastery of St Radegonde [Radegunde], at Poitiers. King Gontran, who greatly regarded his abilities, going to Paris to assist at the baptism of Clotaire II, chose him for the companion of his journey. That ceremony was performed at Nanterre in 591. 

HIS VIRTUE

St Gregory the Great gave the most distinguishing marks of the esteem he conceived of his virtue and capacity. When he sent missionaries with St Austin to England, he recommended them to him, and entrusted him with many important commissions. He granted him the pall, and decreed that, for the future, the bishops of Autun should have the rank of precedence, after the metropolitan of the province of Lyons, even of those who were before them in years and consecration. 

St Syagrius died in 600. Ado and Usuard fix his feast on August 27; but in the additions to the Martyrologies, which go under the name of St Jerome, it is inserted on September 2. A celebrated relic of this saint is shown at Val-de-Grace at Paris. (From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 📷 Coin of Chlotaire II)

➡️ His entry in the Roman Martyrology