ST ALNOTH, ANCHORET AND MARTYR - 27 FEBRUARY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY

Saints celebrated on the 27th of February

WELCOME!

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 ALNOTH, ANCHORET AND MARTYR

[Saint Alnoth of Stowe.] Wedon, in Northamptonshire, was honoured with a palace of Wulphere, king of Mercia, in the middle of England, and was bestowed by that prince upon his daughter St Wereburge, who converted it into a monastery. Alnoth was the bailiff of St Wereburge in that country, and the perfect imitator of her heroic virtues. 

AN ANCHORETICAL LIFE

After her retreat he led an anchoretical life in that neighbourhood, and was murdered by robbers in his solitude. 

HE WAS MURDERED BY ROBBERS

His relics were kept with veneration in the church of the village of Stow, near Wedon. Wilson places his festival on February 27, in the first edition of his English Martyrology, and in the second on November 25. [He died A.D. 700.]

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints 📷 St Alnoth of Stowe, c/o - external link, not affiliated -

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PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Alnoth may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.