ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER
Saints celebrated on the 11th 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.
BL. JACOB GRIESINGER (JACOBUS ALEMANNUS)
Blessed Jacobus Alemannus, a Dominican lay brother, was born in 1407 in Ulm. His father, named Theodorich, was a merchant, and Jacob was raised piously by his godly parents.
In the twenty-fifth year of his age he made a pious pilgrimage with several others. They went to Rome, where he remained in exercises of piety throughout Lent. When Easter had passed, he had run out of money to travel home, so he took military service with King Alphons in Naples and, after having received his farewell, entered the service of a nobleman at Capua, where he stayed for five years.
After the death of his master, who loved him very much because of his virtues, he wanted to return home, but only got as far as Bologna.
Since the Dominicans there made a very favourable impression on him because of their great humility, he asked for admission to their order and was received. As a lay brother he was distinguished by all monastic virtues, but especially by quick obedience.
After he had already worked several miracles during his lifetime, he died, as his life of the Bollandists says, on Wednesday, October 12, 1491. Already eight days after his death he was raised from his place of rest, shining with miracles, and buried in the church, which was frequented by unfortunates and glorified by miracles. In 1825 Pope Leo XII confirmed the veneration paid to the Blessed by Bologna's inhabitants which had been going on for several centuries.
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)
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