Saints celebrated on the 4th 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.
ST FINBAR, ABBOT
(Saint Finbar, Abbot in Ireland.)
[Founder of a famous monastery in the Isle of Crimlen, between Kinselech and Desies.] See Colgan in MSS. ad 4 Julii. He is not to be confounded with St Finbar [Barrus, Barreus, Barrea, Barra, Finbarrus], the first bishop of Cork, who is honoured on September 25.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
Yet another St Barrus is also commemorated on September 25. St Barrus (Fymbertus) was bishop of Caithnes (Cathenesia) in Scotland, and must be distinguished from the previous St Barrus. Nothing more is known about his circumstances. He lived in the 11th century.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)
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