ST DANIELE COMBONI, BISHOP AND MISSIONARY - 10 OCTOBER

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER

Saints celebrated on the 10th 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 DANIELE COMBONI, BISHOP AND MISSIONARY 

Saint Daniele Comboni, born March 15, 1831, was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop who served in the missions in Africa and was the founder of both the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus and the Comboni Missionary Sisters. 

St Daniele studied under Nicola Mazza in Verona where he became a multi-linguist and in 1849 vowed to join the missions in the African continent although this did not occur until 1857 when he travelled to Sudan. 

He continued to travel back and forth from his assignment to his native land in order to found his congregations and attend to other matters. 

On October 10, 1881 he died in Khartoum during the cholera epidemic at 10:00pm in the evening; he had suffered a high fever since October 5. St Daniele's final words were reported to be: "I am dying, but my work will not die". Pope Leo XIII mourned the loss of the bishop as a "great loss". 

(Information from Wikipedia)