ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY
Saints celebrated on the 12th of January
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 TATIANA, MARTYR
Saint Tatiana (commemorated on January 12), a martyr in Rome under the emperor Alexander Severus, is reckoned by the Bollandists to be identical with St Martina.
IS THIS SAINTLY MARTYR ALSO KNOWN AS "MARTINA"?
The reasons for this make sense. Firstly, both "Acts" have the same wording, and secondly, the name changes in the martyrologies, so that where Tatiana appears, Martina is not listed, and vice versa. Nothing is mentioned about this in Baronius (notae).
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints)
THE ENTRY IN THE ROMAN MARTYROLOGY
This is the entry about this holy martyr from the Roman Martyrology: "At Rome, in the time of the emperor Alexander, Saint Tatiana, martyr, who was torn with iron hooks and combs, thrown to the beasts and cast into the fire, but, having received no injury, was beheaded, and thus went to Heaven."
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