ST AUXIBIUS, BISHOP OF SOLI - 19 FEBRUARY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY

 Saints celebrated on the 19th 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 AUXIBIUS, BISHOP OF SOLI 

Saint Auxibius, commemorated on February 19, was a bishop of Soloe (Soli, Solii) on the island of Cyprus, descended from pagan parents at Rome. 

HE SECRETLY LEFT HIS PAGAN HOME IN ORDER TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN

Naturally inclined to all virtues, and desiring the teachings of Jesus, of which he had often heard, he secretly left his parents and fled first to the island of Rhodes, then to Cyprus, where St John Mark, a close relative of the apostle St Barnabas, instructed him in the Christian faith and baptised him.

HE LED HIS FLOCK FOR 50 YEARS

According to the will of the apostle Paul St Heraclides made him bishop of the city mentioned. St Auxibius presided over his flock for 50 years with apostolic zeal and died in the year 102 or 103. His name is also in the Roman Martyrology on February 19.

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)

PRAYER:

May the intercession of the blessed Auxibius, your bishop, commend us to you, so that through his merits we may obtain that which we cannot accomplish by our own. 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.