BL. VICTOR EMILIO MOSCOSO Y CÁRDENAS, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 4 MAY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN MAY

Saints celebrated on the 4th of May

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. VICTOR EMILIO MOSCOSO Y CÁRDENAS, PRIEST AND MARTYR 

Blessed Victor Emilio Moscoso y Cárdenas (April 21, 1846 - May 4, 1897) was an Ecuadorian Roman Catholic priest and professed member from the Jesuits. He served as a teacher in Riobamba since 1892 and it was there that he was slain during the Liberal Revolution which had started in 1895. 

HIS MARTYRDOM

Blessed Victor Emilio was a noted philosopher and taught rhetoric and grammar to his students while serving as a professor; he also served as the college's rector from 1893 until his assassination. He was shot twice in hatred of the faith.

HIS BEATIFICATION

Initiatives to introduce his beatification cause commenced in the late 1990s during celebrations for the first centennial of his death. The cause was introduced not long after and he became titled as a Servant of God. Pope Francis approved his beatification after confirming that the slain priest had been killed "in odium fidei" (in hatred of the faith). The beatification was celebrated in Riobamba on November 16, 2019.

(Source: https://dbpedia.org/page/Victor_Emilio_Moscoso_C%C3%A1rdenas)

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that we who celebrate the anniversary of the death of your holy martyr Victor Emilio may by his intercession be delivered from all evils that threaten us. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.