ST BABOLEN, ABBOT - 26 JUNE

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE

Saints celebrated on the 26th 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.

SAINT BABOLEN, ABBOT

Saint Babolen [Babolein, Babolenus] was a monk of the Order of St Columban, whose country is not known, coming into France was appointed first abbot of St Peter’s des-Fosses, called St Maur’s after the relics of that holy abbot were brought thither from Anjou. 

A HOUSE OF SAINTS

This monastery was founded by Blidegisil, archdeacon of Paris, in 638, in a peninsula formed by the river Marne, two leagues from Paris. St Babolen rendered it a house of saints, and by the perfect spirit of charity, piety, and all virtues which reigned in it, a true image of paradise on earth. 

In conjunction with St Fursey at Lagny he laboured much in serving the whole diocese of Paris by the authority of Bishop Audebert and his successor St Landry. 

CHURCHES AND HOSPITALS

He founded many churches and hospitals in that diocese, and in his old age having resigned his abbacy to Ambrose, his successor, died in holy retirement in the seventh century. The new Paris Breviary honours his memory with one lesson on the 26th of June.

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)

➡️ Saint Papolenus, Bishop