ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL
Saints celebrated on the 9th of April
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.
BL. CATHERINE FARON, VIRGIN AND MARTYR
HER ENTRY IN THE ROMAN MARTYROLOGY:
In the Auschwitz extermination camp near Krakow in Poland, Blessed Celestina Faron, virgin of the Congregation of Handmaids of the Immaculate Conception and martyr, who, during the military occupation of Poland in wartime, was thrown into prison for her faith in Christ and, after being subjected to torture, she obtained the glorious crown.
SHE HAD OFFERED HER LIFE FOR THE CONVERSION OF A PRIEST
Catherine Celestina Faron (Katarzyna Celestyna Faron) was born in 1913. [Orphaned at age five, she was raised by relatives.] She is one of the Polish martyrs of Nazism. The nun had offered her life for the conversion of a priest.
SHE HEROICALLY FACED SUFFERING
Arrested by the Gestapo, she was sentenced to forced labour in the Auschwitz camp. She heroically faced suffering, dying on Easter day 1944. The young nun was beatified by John Paul II in Poland on June 13, 1999 together with 107 other martyrs and Edmund Bojanowski, founder of her Congregation to which she belonged, the Handmaids of the Immaculate Conception.
(Information from Santi e beati,
http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/92072)
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