ST AARON, ABBOT IN BRITTANY - 21 JUNE

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE

Saints celebrated on the 21st 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 AARON, ABBOT IN BRITTANY 

In the sixth century, when Saint Malo came into France, Aaron was abbot of a monastery in an island separated from the city of Aleth in Armorica by an arm of the sea, which the tide at low water left dry twice a day. 

A WELCOME RECEPTION

This holy man gave St Malo a welcome reception, such as one of his character could not fail to meet with wherever virtue was esteemed. St Aaron shared with that holy pastor the glory of his apostleship, and his feast is kept in that diocese with the solemnity of a Lesser Double on the 22nd of June. 

THE PARISH CHURCH 

A parish church in the diocese of St Brieuc bears his name. The island in which his monastery stood was called from him the isle of Aaron, till, in 1150, John, surnamed de la Grille, bishop of Aleth, translated his see from that city into the church of St Malo, in this island, which before belonged to a monastery there. Aleth was deserted by its inhabitants, and the town of St Malo, which fills the whole island of Aaron, arose in its place. 

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)