ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY
Saints celebrated on the 11th 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 DESIDERATUS, BISHOP OF CLERMONT
Saint Desideratus is commemorated on February 11. His name is derived from the Latin = the longed for one, etc.
HE WAS INTERRED IN A CHURCH BUILT IN HIS HONOUR
St Desideratus (in French: St-Desirat) was Bishop of Clermont in Auvergne. He died around the year 600 (according to the hagiographer Migne in A.D. 602) and was buried in a church built in his honour. After the destruction of this church, his body came to the nearby church of St Illidius.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)
PRAYER:
May the intercession of the blessed Desideratus, 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.
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