Saints celebrated on the 12th 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.
SS. BASILIDES, QUIRINUS, NABOR, AND NAZARIUS, MARTYRS
SS. Gelasius and Gregory the Great, in their Sacramentaries, the ancient Roman Calendar published by F. Fronto, and the true Martyrology of Bede, make honourable mention of these four martyrs, who suffered at Rome, and were interred on the Aurelian Road.
FOUR SOLDIERS
According to the acts of their martyrdom, they were four soldiers in the army of Maxentius, son of Maximian Herculius; and after suffering many torments, were beheaded by the command of Aurelius, prefect of Rome.
THEIR RELICS
St Chrodegang, bishop of Metz, in 756, having procured the relics of several martyrs from Rome, he placed those of St Gorgonius in the abbey of Gorze, four leagues from Metz; those of St Nazarius in that of Lorch or Lausheim, in the diocese of Worms; and those of St Nabor in that of St Hilary on the Moselle, since corruptly called St Avol’s, i. e. St Nabor’s in the diocese of Metz. See Paul the deacon, Rabanus Maurus, Notker, etc.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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