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SS. PLACIDUS AND SIGISBERT OF DISENTIS - 11 JULY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY

Saints celebrated on the 11th of July

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. PLACIDUS AND SIGISBERT OF DISENTIS

Placidus and Sigisbert of Disentis were the 8th century founders of the Benedictine Disentis Monastery, which is still very much thriving today. 

Placidus is assumed to have been an influential landowner from the Rhaetia region. Sigisbert, on the other hand, was a wandering monk from Franconia who probably spent a few years in the monastery of Luxeuil. Placidus was slain by the sovereign and president Victor von Chur, who saw the his influence in Rhaetia endangered by Sigisbert. Due to his holiness, zeal and gifts as a preacher the latter had been rather successful in converting the locals, whom he baptised himself. 

In 765, Victor's son Tello bequeathed extensive donations to the monastery as reparation for the bloody deed. Based on this will and archaeological excavations (crypt built around 700), the date of death of Placidus and Sigisbert can be set to the first half of the 8th century. Placidus' bust reliquary, probably made around 1480 by the goldsmith Hans Schwartz of Constance, is, like the bust reliquary of Lucius of Chur, kept in the Cathedral Museum at Chur. 

(Source:

https://second.wiki/wiki/placidus_und_sigisbert_von_disentis )

[Here the link to the Monastery's website: https://www.kloster-disentis.ch/home .]

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