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.
SS. GORGONIUS AND FIRMUS, MARTYRS
Saint Gorgonius was a martyr in Rome, whose relics were brought to the monastery of St Martin in Tours by the abbot Nainaldus in 847, and many miracles took place.
It cannot be determined at what time he suffered, but so much seems certain that he does not belong to the number of the 40 martyrs of Sebaste and is a different person from the martyrs of that name previously cited.
His body was originally buried on the Appian Road, "between the two Laurels" near the Church of St Cecilia. The hagiographer Mabillion states that his relics were translated on July 3.
His name is also found in the Roman Martyrology, but in such a way that the place where he suffered remains undetermined. With him, St Firmus is mentioned.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)
PRAYER:
Grant to your Church, we beseech you, O Lord, through the intercession of your holy martyrs Gorgonius and Firmus, 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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