ST CHUNIALD OF IRELAND, PRIEST - 24 SEPTEMBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 24th 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.

ST CHUNIALD OF IRELAND, PRIEST 

(St Conald.) He was one of those eminent Scottish or Irish missionaries who left their native country to carry the faith of Christ into Germany. He was for many years the constant companion of St Rupert, bishop of Salzburg, in all his apostolical functions. 

He is mentioned in some Martyrologies on the 27th of February, but his feast is kept on September 24, the day of the translation of his relics. 

According to Colgan, St Rupert, who is honoured on March 27, was also a Scot from Ireland. The same author asserts that St Conald was one of the twelve holy missionaries who accompanied St Rupert, and that his relics were taken up by St Virgilius, and exposed to public veneration at Salzburg in 773. 

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 📷 Baptism of Duke Theodo by Bishop Rupert)

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