ST CANDIDA OF CARTHAGE, VIRGIN AND MARTYR - 20 SEPTEMBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 20th of September

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 CANDIDA OF CARTHAGE, VIRGIN AND MARTYR

In the Roman Martyrology can be found a Saint Candida, of whom it is said that she was showered with wounds at Carthage under the Emperor Maximian and thus obtained the martyr's palm. 

The Bollandists, who carefully examined the matter, came to the conclusion that the evidence which had moved Cardinal Baronius to enter Candida as "Martyr of Carthage" was not quite convincing.

However, we believe the Roman Martyrology and follow it; therefore, in our book, we list St Candida the Martyr in the chapter "others". 

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)