ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL
Saints celebrated on the 23rd 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 IBAR, BISHOP
The acts of Saint Ibar (St Ivor) and some other monuments say, that he was ordained bishop at Rome, and preached in Ireland with St Kiaran, St Ailbeus, and St Declan, a little before St Patrick arrived there; but others, quoted by Usher, tell us that St Ibar was consecrated bishop by St Patrick.
HE PREACHED IN MEATH AND LEINSTER
He preached in Meath and Leinster, and built a monastery at Beg-erin, or Little Ireland, a small island on the coast of Kenselach, (which was anciently a considerable province of Leinster). In this monastery he trained up with many others St Abban, his nephew, by his sister Mella, married to Cormac, king of Leinster. St Abban was afterwards abbot of the monastery of Magarnoide, in Kenselach.
HIS RELICS
St Ibar divided his time between the labours of his apostolic mission in the country, and the sweet repose of contemplation in his monastery, where he died about the year 500, according to the Ulster annals. His relics were kept with singular veneration in this monastery of Beg-erin.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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