Saints celebrated on the 1st 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.
ST ACIUS AND ACHEOLUS, MARTYRS
[Called in French SS. Ach and Acheul.] They seem to have suffered about the year 290, and are honoured in the Gallican Martyrologies, and especially at Amiens, on the 1st of May. See Molanus in Auctario Usuardi, and Henschenius 1st of May, and an old Martyrology under the name of St Jerome, quoted by him.
THE CHURCH OF ST ACHEUL
The church of St Acheul, without the walls of Amiens, was originally the cathedral; but this being removed by St Salvius to our Lady’s in the city, the church of St Acheul became dependent on it. A community of regular canons was there erected in 1145. It is now a member of the reformed congregation of St Genevieve. In digging foundations for a new church, five very ancient tombs were found, which have been the subject of many dissertations, especially whether one is not that of St Firminus, bishop and confessor, whose relics are enshrined in the cathedral.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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