ST VERONUS, CONFESSOR - 30 MARCH

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MARCH

Saints celebrated on the 30th 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 VERONUS, CONFESSOR 

Saint Veronus is a confessor venerated at Lembek and Mons in Hainault (Belgium). He is said to have been a brother of St Verona, but is otherwise unknown.

HIS MIRACLES

The miracles that occurred when his relics were found (on which occasion his name was dated  "March 30") really made him widely known. They are the witnesses of his holiness. This finding happened in 1004. 

THE TRANSLATION OF HIS RELICS

From Lembek the relics were transferred to Mons (Bergen) to the local Waldetrudiskirche (Dermal Cathedral). The period in which our saint lived cannot be determined. The Bollandists (hagiographers) assume that he lived in the 9th century, because an (unauthenticated) legend links him to Charlemagne. In pictures he has a woman next to him who is pouring out water. 

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