ST ERLULPH, BISHOP OF VERDEN AND MARTYR - 10 FEBRUARY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY

 Saints celebrated on the 10th 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 ERLULPH, BISHOP OF VERDEN AND MARTYR 

(Saint Erlulph, Bishop and Martyr, Native of Scotland.)

 Several Scottish missionaries passed into the North-western parts of Germany, to sow there the seeds of the faith, at the time when Charlemagne subdued the Saxons. 

GREAT SUCCESS

In imitation of these apostolic men, saint Erlulph, an holy Scotchman, went thither, and after employing many years with great success in that arduous mission, was chosen the tenth bishop of Verden.

HIS MARTYRDOM

His zeal in propagating the faith enraged the barbarous infidels, and he was slain by them at a place called Eppokstorp [in North West Germany], in 830.

NOTE

Note 1. This saint must not be confounded with Ernulph, a most holy man, the apostle of Iceland, who flourished in the year 890.

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)