Saints celebrated on the 22 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 BASILISCUS, BISHOP AND MARTYR
(Saint Basiliscus, Bishop of Comana in Pontius, Martyr) He received the crown of martyrdom together with St Lucia at Nicomedia in 312, under the tyrant Maximinus Daia.
HIS RELICS
Peace being soon after restored to the church, his body was honourably brought back to Comana. St Chrysostom died in the Presbyterium or community of the clergy belonging to the church of St Basiliscus.
A VISION
The martyr had before admonished the priest in a dream to prepare a lodging for his brother John; and he comforted St Chrysostom by a vision, in which he bade him be of good courage, for the next day they should be together.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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