ST LEO OF THE AGRO VERANO, BISHOP AND MARTYR - 14 MARCH

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH

Saints celebrated on the 14th of March

WELCOME!

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 LEO OF THE AGRO VERANO, BISHOP AND MARTYR

Saint Leo was a 4th or 5th century bishop of whom nothing is now known save that the old official Registers in Rome record his name and qualify him as a bishop and martyr. He appears to have suffered during the troubles with the Arians. 

HIS RELICS

His tomb was discovered outside the walls of Rome in 1857, and verses cut in the stone tell us that he had married while still a heathen, and that he lived to the age of eighty. His body, however, had been removed and enshrined in one of the churches of Rome as early as the ninth century.

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

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Leo, your blessed bishop and martyr, may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. 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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