ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY
Saints celebrated on the 9th 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.
SAINT ANSBERT, ARCHBISHOP OF ROUEN, CONFESSOR
Saint Ansbert had been chancellor to King Clotair III in which station he had united the mortification and recollection of a monk with the duties of wedlock, and of a statesman. Quitting the court, he put on the monastic habit at Fontenelle under St Wandregisile (Vandregisilus, Wando) and when that holy founder’s immediate successor St Lantbert (Lambert) was made bishop of Lyons, Ansbert was appointed abbot of that famous monastery.
HE WAS CONFESSOR TO KING TEODORIC
He was confessor to King Theodoric III and with his consent was chosen archbishop of Rouen, upon the death of St Owen in 683.
LEARNING AND PIETY FLOURISHED IN HIS DIOCESE
By his care, good order, learning, and piety flourished in his diocese; nevertheless Pepin, mayor of the palace, banished him, upon a false accusation, to the monastery of Aumont, upon the Sambre in Hainault, where he died in the year 698.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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