Saints celebrated on the 13th 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 PETER REGALATI, CONFESSOR
[Saint Peter de Regalado.] This saint was descended of a noble family, and having lost his father in his infancy, in the thirteenth year of his age, he extorted with great difficulty his mother’s consent to enter himself in the Franciscan friars at Valladolid, of which city he was a native.
THE SECOND CONVENT
By his extraordinary fervour he was distinguished among his brethren. When F. Peter Villacretios, who had established a rigorous reformation of his Order of Aquileria, in the diocese of Osma, founded a second retired convent more like a prison than a house, at Tribulos on the Deuro, near Aquileria, our saint, at his earnest request, was admitted one of this colony.
A CONSTANT UNION WITH GOD
By the austerity of his penance, his assiduity in contemplation, and the sublime gift of prayer with which he was endowed, he seems to have equalled the most eminent saints of his Order. The sufferings of our divine Redeemer were the principal entertainment of his soul, and he lived in a constant union with God.
Upon the death of F. Villacretios he succeeded him in the government of his reformed congregation, and died at Aquileria on March 30, in the sixty-sixth year of his age, of our Lord 1456.
HIS CANONISATION
He was canonised by Benedict XIV in 1746, and his name is placed in the Roman Martyrology on the 13th of May, the day of the translation of his relics. On his extraordinary raptures, miracles, and heroic virtues, see the process and bull of his canonisation.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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