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 GEREON AND OTHERS, MARTYRS
St Gereon and others were 3rd century Roman Martyrs. These heroic Christians, three hundred and nineteen in number, appear to have formed part of the famous Theban Legion, massacred by order of the Emperor Maximian (A.D. 286). St Gereon would therefore be the officer in command of the detachment. Saint Hanno of Cologne discovered and enshrined their remains in the eleventh century.
(From The Book of Saints, 1921, by the Monks of Ramsgate)
PRAYER:
May the blessed merits of your holy Martyrs, St Gereon and others, continually benefit us, O Lord, and make us fervent in your love. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
(📷 1. Cloth of St Gereon tapestry made about A.D. 1000, 2. St Gereon)
SAINT GEREON'S ENTRY IN THE ROMAN MARTYROLOGY:
At Cologne, in the persecution of Maximian, Saint Gereon, martyr, with three hundred and eighteen others, who patiently bowed their necks to the sword for the true religion.
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