ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH
Saints celebrated on the 12th 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.
SS. EGUNDUS AND OTHERS, MARTYRS
Saints Egundus and Others were 4th century martyrs. They were victims of the persecution under Diocletian at Nicomedia in Asia Minor (A.D. 303). Egdunus, with seven other Christians, was hung up by his feet over a lire and suffocated with its smoke.
(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)
THEIR ENTRY IN THE ROMAN MARTYROLOGY:
"In the same city, Saint Egdunus, priest, and seven others, who were strangled one by one, on successive days, to terrify those who remained."
PRAYER:
O God, who gladden us each year by the feast of your martyrs Egundus and his Companions, graciously grant that, as we rejoice in their merits, we may be inspired by their example. 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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