ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER
Saints celebrated on the 9th of October
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.
BLESSED ADALBERO, BISHOP OF AUGSBURG
Blessed Adalbero (Adalpertus, Adalbertus, Albertus, Alberus), Bishop. His name means "nobleman". Blessed Adalbero, a scion of the counts of Dillingen and the nobles of Vaihingen, dedicated his youth to science and piety in the Ellwangen monastery.
The register of Ellwangen abbots list Adalbero as the successor to Abbot Hatto, who, however, should not be confused with Hatto von Reichenau, who was raised to the archbishopric of Mainz. In the year 887, the Augsburg bishop Witgar died. Adalbero became successor.
Emperor Arnulf placed such trust in him that he entrusted Adalbero with the upbringing of his son (the future Emperor Ludwig [Louis], also known as "the child").
In the monastery of Lorsch (Laurisheim) in Franconia, the indulgence of earlier rulers had led to a lack of discipline; but Adalbero, to whom the emperor had entrusted this abbey, knew how to restore discipline and order with love and meekness.
With his enlightened piety he valued the sciences, supported and favoured scholars, and he himself (as the author of the life of St Ulrich says) shone as a star of wisdom and even surpassed all of his contemporaries in music.
After Blessed Adalbero had presided over the diocese of Augsburg with prudence and wisdom for twenty years, the Lord of Life called him into eternity in the year 909.
He found his resting place in the Church of St. Afra, where his bones were raised several times until they were finally exhibited in 1689 in the chapel next to the sacristy for public veneration. The feast of this blessed is celebrated on October 9, the day of his death; Bucelin lists it on June 12; probably his relics were transferred on this date. Migne counts him among the "saints".
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858 - 📷 Prayers to St Adalbero and St Nidgarius from the 1699 prayer book "Neu-erweckter Andachts-Eyffer, das ist Hoch-Feyr- und Freudenreiches Ehren-Fest bey jüngst-geschehener solenner Erheb- und Beysetzung der fünff Glorwürdigen, Hochheiligen Leichname , und der vier Augspurgischen Bischöffen Wicterpi, Thossonis, Nidgarii und Adalberonis..." (on the occasion of the translation of the relics of several Augsburg saints)
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