ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH
Saints celebrated on the 9th 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.
FORTY HOLY MARTYRS OF SEBASTE
Today, we also commemorate the Forty Holy Soldiers of Cappadocia. The Roman Martyrology states:
"At Sebaste, in Armenia, under the governor Agricolaus, in the time of the emperor Licinius, the birthday of forty holy soldiers of Cappadocia.
"After being loaded with chains and confined in foul dungeons, after having their faces bruised with stones, and being condemned to spend the night naked, during the coldest part of winter, on a frozen lake, where their bodies were benumbed and laid open by the frost, they ended their martyrdom by having their limbs crushed. The noblest of them were Cyrion and Candidus.
"Their glorious triumph has been celebrated by St Basil and other Fathers in their writings."
(From the Roman Martyrology - 🎨 Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem)
PRAYER:
Grant to your Church, we beseech you, O Lord, through the intercession of your holy Martyrs of Sebaste, not to think high-mindedly, but to grow in humility pleasing to you; that, despising what is base, she may with unbounded love diligently do whatever is right. 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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Their names are: Quirion (Cyrius, Cyrion, Cyrinus), Candidus, Domnus, Melito (Militon, Mellitus, Melicius), Donitian (Diomecianus), Eunoicus, Sisinius, Heraclius, Alexander, Joannes (Julianus, Bibianus), Claudius, Athanasius, Valens, Helianus, Ecditius, Acacius, Vibianus, Helias, Theodulus, Cyrillus, Flavius, Severianus, Valerius, Chudio, Sacerdon, Priscus (Dianius), Eutychius, Eutyches, Smaragdus, Philoctimon, Aetius, Nicolaus (Micallius), Lysimachus, Theophilus, Xantheas, Angias, Leontius, Hesychius, Cajus, and Gorgonius. (Rabanus* omits Domnus and Smaragdus and names Juvenalis und Basilides instead).
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, Volume 5, Augsburg, 1882, pp. 18-19)
Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations
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