ST DROCTOVAEUS, ABBOT - 10 MARCH

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH 

Saints celebrated on the 10th 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.

ST DROCTOVAEUS, ABBOT 

[Droctonius, Droctovée] King Childebert having built at Paris a famous abbey in honour of St Vincent, this saint, who was a native of the diocese of Autun, had been educated under St Germanus, abbot of St Symphorian’s at Autun, and was a person eminent for his learning and extraordinary spirit of mortification and prayer, was appointed the second, according to Duplessis, according to others, the first Abbot of this house, since called St Germain-des-Prez, in which he died about the year 580. 

HIS FEAST DAY

His body is kept in that abbey, and he is honoured by the church on March 10. His original life being lost, Gislemar, a Benedictine monk of this house, in the ninth age, collected from tradition and scattered memoirs that which we have in Bollandus, and more accurately in Mabillon.

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)

PRAYER:

May the intercession of the blessed abbot Droctovaeus commend us to you, so that through his 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.