ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL
Saints celebrated on the 26th 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 TRUDPERT, MISSIONARY
Saint Trudpert was a seventh century missionary in Germany. He is generally called a Celtic monk from Ireland, but some consider him a German.
HE OBTAINED AUTHORITY FROM THE POPE
According to legend, he went first to Rome in order to receive from the pope authority for his mission. Returning from Italy he travelled along the Rhine to the country of the Alamanni in the Breisgau. A person of rank named Otbert gave him land for his mission about fifteen miles south of Freiburg in Baden.
HE BUILT A CELL AND A LITTLE CHURCH
Trudpert cleared off the trees and built a cell and a little church which Bishop Martinus of Constance dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul. Here Trudpert led an ascetic and laborious life.
HE WAS MURDERED
One day when he was asleep he was murdered by one of the serfs whom Otbert had given him, in revenge for severe tasks imposed. Otbert gave Trudpert an honourable burial.
THE BENEDICTINE ABBEY OF ST TRUDPERT
The Benedictine Abbey of St Trudpert was built in the next century on the spot where Trudpert was buried. The story of his life is so full of legendary details that no correct judgment can be formed of Trudpert’s era, the kind of work he did, or of its success. The period when he lived in the Breisgau was formerly given as 640-643; Baur gives 607 as the year of his death. The day of his death is April 26. In 815 his relics were translated and the first biography of him was written; this biography was revised in the tenth and thirteenth centuries.
(From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)
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