ST ILLIDIUS, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR - 5 JUNE

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE

Saints celebrated on the 5th of June

                      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 ILLIDIUS, BISHOP AND CONFESSOR 

➡️ More information about St Illidius

Saint Illidius, called in French Allyre, was the fourth bishop of Clermont in Auvergne, from St Austremonius, and flourished in the fourth century. His great sanctity is extolled by St Gregory of Tours. He died about the year 385, on the 5th of June, on which his festival is kept in his diocese and titular abbey, though his name occurs in the Roman Martyrology on the 7th July. 

HIS RELICS

His relics are kept with singular veneration in the ancient Benedictine abbey in the suburb of Clermont,  which bears his name, is of the congregation of St Maur, and enjoys the privilege of having a regular abbot. 

NOTE:

Only seven Benedictine abbeys of the congregation of St Maur are allowed to have regular abbots, viz. St Maur, or Glanfeuil, in Anjou, Chezal Benoit in the diocese of Bourges, St Sulpicius’s at Bourges, St Vincent’s at Mans, St Martin’s at Seez, St Augustine’s at Limoges, and St Allyre’s at Clermont. These abbots are elective and triennial. The other abbeys of this congregation are in the hands of commendatory abbots, and are governed by claustral priors. 

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)