BL. RENÉE MARIE FEILLATREAU, MARTYR - 28 MARCH

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH

Saints celebrated on the 28th of March

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.

BL. RENÉE MARIE FEILLATREAU, MARTYR 

During the French Revolution, the new revolutionary authorities violently suppressed the Church, abolished the Catholic monarchy, seized Church property, and persecuted and killed priests and religious. During this period, Blessed Renée Marie, who was born in Angers, France, in 1751, was arrested for protecting vestments and sacred vessels used for Holy Mass. She was put on a show trial and subsequently condemned to death. She frankly and courageously declared publicly that she preferred to die rather than deny her Catholic Faith. She was guillotined on March 28, 1794. 

BL. RENÉE MARIE'S ENTRY IN THE ROMAN MARTYROLOGY:

In Anjou, in France, blessed Renée Marie Feillatreau, martyr, who, being married, during the French Revolution was decapitated her her fidelity to the Catholic Church.

PRAYER:

May the intercession of Blessed Renée Marie commend us to you, so that through her 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.