Saints celebrated on the 30th 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 MADELGISILUS, RECLUSE
(Saint Maguil, in Latin Madelgisilus, Recluse in Picardy.) He is said to have been a native of Ireland, and the inseparable companion of St Fursey, with whom he passed into France.
AFTER ST FURSEY'S DEATH
After the death of that saint (who is honoured on January 16) Maguil retired among the monks of St. Riquier, whom he exceedingly edified by his virtues; but fearing that the extraordinary veneration in which he was held might expose him to the suggestions of pride, he, with the abbot’s leave, hid himself in the solitude of Monsterlet, upon the river Authie, where he served God with new fervour in all the exercises of a contemplative life.
VULGAN
Here he was visited by a holy English recluse named Vulgan, with whom he contracted a holy friendship, and they afterwards lived together for several years. The latter being seized with a mortal illness, endeavoured to comfort his companion, whose grief on the occasion was excessive; and exhorting him to have sentiments more becoming a Christian, “You should tremble,” says he, “lest by this grief you offend God, and lose all the fruit of your labours.”
HIS RELICS
The abbot and monks of St Riquier being apprized of the situation of Vulgan, administered to him the sacraments, and after his death buried him in the chapel of the hermitage. St Maguil survived him but a short time, having died about the year 685. His body was buried in the same tomb with that of his holy companion, but was afterwards removed into a church of his name built near St Riquier. He is honoured on this day, which is supposed to be the day on which he died.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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