ST HERMILAND, ABBOT - 25 MARCH

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH

Saints celebrated on the 25th 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.

SAINT HERMILAND, ABBOT 

Saint Hermiland (Hermenland) was an 8th century abbot. Born of noble parents at Nimeguen in Holland, or, as others assert, at Noyon in North-Eastern France, he was brought up as a page at the Court of Clotaire III (A.D. 656-A.D. 670). 

HE ENTERED THE MONASTERY OF FONTENELLE

He afterwards entered the monastery of Fontenelle, and, having been ordained priest, was sent to Nantes, where he built a monastery in the Island of Aindre in the Loire. Of this he was made abbot, and presided over it for many years. His death is usually dated A.D. 720. He became famous for his numerous miracles, and is still in great popular veneration.

(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)

HIS ENTRY IN THE ROMAN MARTYROLOGY:

In Indre, an island of the Loire, the abbot St Hermelandus, whose glorious life is attested by signal miracles.

PRAYER:

May the intercession of the blessed abbot Hermiland 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.

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