ST AURELIA OF STRASBOURG, VIRGIN - 15 OCTOBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER 

Saints celebrated on the 15th 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.

ST AURELIA OF STRASBOURG, VIRGIN 

St Aurelia, an 11th century Virgin, is said to have been a princess of France, of the family of Hugues Capet, and to have fled in disguise to Strasbourg, in order to escape a marriage arranged against her will by her parents. 

Following the advice of St Wolfgang, Bishop of Ratisbon, who penetrated her disguise, she embraced the life of a Solitary and took up her abode in a hermitage where she remained for about fifty-two years. 

The fame of her sanctity, borne witness to by several miracles, was already widespread at the time of her holy death in the year 1027. Her relics were worthily enshrined, and her hermitage converted into a chapel which became a place of popular pilgrimage.

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

PRAYER:

O God, who gladden us each year by the feast of blessed Aurelia, graciously grant that, as we rejoice in her merits, we may be inspired by her example. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.