ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 23rd 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.
BL. WILLIAM WAY, PRIEST AND MARTYR
(Alias May, alias Flower) English priest and martyr, born in Exeter Diocese (Challoner says in Cornwall, but earlier authorities say in Devonshire); hanged, bowelled, and quartered at Kingston-on-Thames, September 23, 1588.
He is frequently confused with the martyred layman Richard Flower, alias Lloyd, who suffered at Tyburn, September 30, 1588, with the priest William Wiggs, alias Way, M.A., a notable prisoner at Wisbech, and with William Wyggs, M.A., of New College, Oxford.
Our martyr William Way received the first tonsure in the Cathedral of Reims from the Cardinal of Guise on March 31, 1584, and was ordained subdeacon, March 22, deacon April 5, and priest September 18, 1586, at Laon, probably by Bishop Valentine Douglas, O.S.B.
He set out for England December 9, 1586, and in June 1587, had been committed to the Clink. He was indicted at Newgate in September, 1588, merely for being a priest. He declined to be tried by a secular judge, whereupon the Bishop of London was sent for; but the martyr, refusing to acknowledge him as a bishop or the queen as head of the Church, was immediately condemned.
He was much given to abstinence and austerity. When he was not among the first of those to be tried at the Sessions in August, he wept and, fearing he had offended God, went at once to confession, "but when he himself was sent for, he had so much joy that he seemed past himself".
(From Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913 - 📷 St Agatha's Catholic Church, Kingston upon Thames)
➡️ Blessed William Wigges, Priest and Martyr
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