ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH
Saints celebrated on the 5th 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 ROGER, CONFESSOR
Saint Roger was a disciple of St Francis of Assisi, who received him into his Order in 1216, and sent him into Spain, though Wading calls him a layman.
HIS CHARITY
The spirit of poverty which he professed, he inherited of his holy father in the most perfect degree, and St Francis commended his charity above all his other disciples.
HIS GIFTS OF PROPHECY AND MIRACLES
The gifts of prophecy and miracles rendered him illustrious both living and after his death, which happened in 1236.
HIS RELICS
His head is kept at Villa Franca, in the diocese of Asturia, and his body at Todi in Italy, where he is honoured with a particular office ratified by Gregory IX. Pope Benedict XIV. granted to the Franciscans for his festival March 5.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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