ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL
Saints celebrated on the 1st 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.
ST NUNO ALVARES PEREIRA, CARMELITE
Saint Nuno Alvares Pereira was born in Portugal on June 24, 1360 He became page to Queen Leonor, was received at court and was created a knight.
HIS MARRIAGE
At sixteen years of age, at the request of his father, he married a rich widow, Donna Leonor de Alvim. Three children were born to them.
A SUCCESSFUL CAREER
Meanwhile, he was successful as a knight for the king. He had an active prayer life and a tender devotion to Our Lady throughout. Some of his fortune he used to build churches and convents.
RELIGIOUS LIFE
After his wife died and the surviving of his three children had grown up, he gave all his wealth away and, in 1423, decided to enter the convent of the Carmelites which he himself had founded, taking the name of Brother Nuno of Saint Mary. After a holy life he died Easter Sunday, April 1, 1431.
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