Saints celebrated on the 29th 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 MAXIMINUS, BISHOP OF TRIER
[Saint Maximinus, Bishop of Triers, Confessor - A.D. 349.] He was one of those pastors whom God raised in the most dangerous times to support his church. He was born at Poitiers, nobly descended, and related to Maxentius, bishop of that city before St Hilary.
HE WAS ADMITTED TO. HOLY ORDERS
The reputation of the sanctity of St Agritius, bishop of Triers [Trier, Treves], drew him young to that city, and after a most virtuous education, he was admitted to holy orders, and, upon the death of Agritius, chosen his successor in 332.
ST ANASTASIUS STAYED AT HIS PLACE
When St Athanasius was banished to Triers in 336, St. Maximinus received him, not as a person disgraced, but as a most glorious confessor of Christ, and thought it a great happiness to enjoy the company of so illustrious a saint. St. Athanasius stayed with him two years; and his works bear evidence to the indefatigable vigilance, heroic courage, and exemplary virtue of our saint, who was before that time famous for the gift of miracles.
St Paul, bishop of Constantinople, being banished by Constantius, found also a retreat at Triers, and in St Maximinus a powerful protector.
A MOST ILLUSTRIOUS DEFENDER OF THE CATHOLIC FAITH
Our saint, by his counsels, precautioned the emperor Constans against the intrigues and snares of the Arians, and on every occasion discovered their artifice, and opposed their faction. He was one of the most illustrious defenders of the Catholic faith in the council of Sardica in 347, and had the honour to be ranked by the Arians with St Athanasius, in an excommunication which they pretended to fulminate against them at Philippopolis.
St. Maximinus is said to have died in Poitou in 349, having made a journey thither to see his relations. He was buried near Poitiers; but his body was afterwards translated to Triers on the day which is now devoted to his memory. St Maximinus, by protecting and harbouring saints, received himself the recompense of a saint.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints 📷 German voucher, designed by Fritz Quant, 1920, featuring Trier Cathedral)
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