ST TITIAN, BISHOP OF BRESCIA - 3 MARCH

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH 

Saints celebrated on the 3rd 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 TITIAN, BISHOP OF BRESCIA 

Saint Titian (Titianus), a holy bishop of Brescia, a German by birth, is mentioned on this day in the Roman Martyrology. 

HIS ACTIVE AND SELF-SACRIFICING CHARITY

Although his origins and life story are shrouded in deep darkness, the memory of his active and self-sacrificing charity - he fed a certain number of needy people every day, whose feet he washed with his own hands - and his love for the decoration of churches and altars erected and maintained a permanent monument of veneration in his diocese and beyond. 

His death is set in the year 526. In 1302 his relics were transferred to the cathedral. 

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)

PRAYER:

May the intercession of the blessed Titian, your bishop, 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.