ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST
Saints celebrated on the 5th of August
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.
BL. SALVI HUIX MIRALPÉIX, BISHOP AND MARTYR
Blessed Salvi Huix Miralpéix was born on December 22, 1877 to a pious and wealthy family in Santa Margarida de Vallors. He studied at the seminary in Vic, and was ordained a priest on September 19, 1903 by Bishop Josep Torras i Bages. After his ordination, he served as an assistant priest in rural parishes in Cóll and Sant Vicenç de Castellet.
THE ORATORIANS
In 1907 he made his solemn profession to enter the Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri in Vic.
As an Oratorian, he founded a confraternity under the patronage of Saint Joseph, an organisation intended to revitalise the spiritual and parish life of working married men. He also taught theology at the seminary of Vic. On February 16, 1928 he was appointed apostolic administrator of Ibiza and was consecrated as the titular bishop of Selymbria in April 1928. On January 28, 1935 he became bishop of Lleida and on May 5 he took possession of the diocese, succeeding Bishop Manuel.
ATHEIST PERSECUTION OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
During the Civil War, the Republicans attacked the bishop's palace in Lleida in July 1936. Bishop Huix Miralpéix found refuge in the home of some relatives of his domestics. To avoid exposing them to the possibility of reprisal, he handed himself over at a Republican roadblock.
He was imprisoned in the prison of Lleida with other Catholics, both ecclesiastics and lay people, where he distinguished himself by continuing to minister to his fellow prisoners.
HE WAS OFFERED FREEDOM IF HE RENOUNCED THE FAITH
On August 5, 1936 he was taken from prison with twenty lay people and brought to the municipal cemetery of Lleida. There, he was forced to dig his own grave. The militants offered him freedom, but only if he would renounce his faith, which he refused.
HE BLESSED THE PARISHIONERS ONE BY ONE
Instead, he requested that he be the last of the group to be executed so he could bless the other victims as they died. One of the men objected and shot the bishop in the right arm to stop him from administering his blessings. Undeterred, he continued with his left. Finally, he was killed by a shot to the head.
(Source:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvi_Huix_Miralp%C3%A9ix )
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