SS. FLORENTINUS AND HILARY, MARTYRS - 27 SEPTEMBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 27th 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.

SS. FLORENTINUS AND HILARY, MARTYRS 

SS. Florentinus and Hilary, Martyrs, are commemorated on September 27.

The date of their martyrdom is uncertain. The learned are not agreed as to who these Saints were. 

Semont, near Autun in France, seems the more likely conjecture as to their place of martyrdom, rather than Sion in the Valais. 

Some date it A.D. 406, at the time of the Vandal invasion of Gaul; others A.D. 265 in the raid of the Alamanni under Chrocus. 

There is a consent that their tongues were torn out previous to their being beheaded.

(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)