ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY
Saints celebrated on the 3rd of February
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 ADELINUS OF AQUITAINE, PRIEST
Saint Adelinus (Hadelinus) is commemorated on February 3 or October 11. A native of Aquitaine of noble birth, left his country and the world for the sake of following Jesus, to serve the Lord at the monastery of Solignac (Solemniacum) in Limousin.
HE WAS ORDAINED A PRIEST
His abbot, St Remaclus, soon after having left the world to the solitude of Cougmon (Casa-Congidunum, on the Semoy) was appointed to the episcopal see of Maastricht (after the year 650). Hadelinus went with him and received priestly ordination from his hands.
THE MONASTERY OF CELLES
Later he sought solitude again and went to Stavelot (Stablo), and afterwards moved to yet another lonely place on the river Lesse near Dinant. The Major domus Pipin of Herstal, who often visited him there, and other greats supported him so generously that he was able to build the monastery of Celles in the diocese of Liège.
THE TRANSFER OF HIS RELICS
He died around the year 690. Later (in the year 1338) the foundation he had built up was transferred to Visé (Weset, Viset) on the Meuse, and the body of the holy founder was translated there. The transfer of his relics is celebrated on October 11.
ICONOGRAPHY
At Visé, he is pictured in a long black cloak, holding a staff in his hand, on top of which is a cross on which a dove is seated; but in Celle as a hermit, because he led a hermit's life there; elsewhere with alb and chasuble, holding a book in his left hand and a staff in his right.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)
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