Saints celebrated on the 16th 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 EMANUS, PRIEST AND MARTYR
Saint Emanus was a Cappadocian by birth, and from an early age felt in himself a sacred urge for virtue and science.
He left his fatherland and went to Rome to the tombs of the holy. Apostles Peter and Paul, where he stayed seven years to train in the sacred sciences.
HE CONVERTED MANY SOULS
After this he went, inwardly exhorted, to Milan to pray through the intercession of St Nazarius. After two more years he entered the company of the holy Bishop Nectarius to Autun in France, and from thence to Chartres (Carnutum) to preach the gospel there. He was ordained a priest, and as such converted many to Christianity, and performed brilliant miracles.
HE WAS MARTYRED
Finally, for the promotion of the glory of God and the salvation of immortal souls, he united himself in soul with Maurilius and Almarus, suffered martyrdom with them, and enjoyed great veneration at Chartres. Since, according to his unknown biographer, he came to France under Theodobert, he must have lived around the middle of the 6th century.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)
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