ST VICTOR OF BRAGA, MARTYR - 12 APRIL

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL

Saints celebrated on the 12th 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 VICTOR OF BRAGA, MARTYR 

This city was a populous resort of the Romans; on which account it was watered with the blood of many martyrs in the persecution of Diocletian. 

THE MARTYRS

The names only of SS. Victor, Sylvester, Cucufas, Susana, and Torquatus have reached us. Their triumphs are honoured in that church, and recorded by Vasaeus in his chronicle, and other Spanish historians. 

ST VICTOR WAS BAPTISED IN HIS OWN BLOOD

St Victor, who is mentioned in the Roman Martyrology on April 12, was a catechumen, who, refusing to sacrifice to idols, was condemned to lose his head, and baptised in his own blood. 

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)