ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH
Saints celebrated on the 11th 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.
LOIS, GRANDMOTHER OF ST TIMOTHY
Lois was the grandmother of Saint Timothy, disciple of St Paul, who commends her and her daughter Eunice for their 'unfeigned faith' (2 Tim. 1:5).
The Bollandists (hagiographers) list these pious women on March 11 and in their article on St Timothy on January 24, they express their astonishment that both holy women are neither found in the Greek nor in the Latin lists as "saints".
STRATAEAS
On the feast of St Polycarp they also mention St Strataeas, another son of Eunice, daughter of Lois. This St Strataeas is therefore a brother of St Timothy, and it is said of him that the holy apostle Paul, on his journey to Jerusalem, coming from Galatia, spent some time at Strataeas' place in Smyrna, who was listening to him in Pamphilia. After the apostle's departure, Strataeas himself took over the preaching office. But we couldn't find anything else about him anywhere else.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints)
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