ST LUPUS OF LYONS, BISHOP - 25 SEPTEMBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 25th 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 LUPUS OF LYONS, BISHOP 

St Lupus, probably born in Lyons towards the end of the fifth century, spent the first years of his life in the Isle-Barbe monastery - not in Lerins, as Baronius erroneously states - near Lyons, of which he later became abbot.

The reputation of his holiness drew St Leobin, later Bishop of Chartres, there. 

After the death of St Viventiolus, he became the thirtieth bishop of Lyons.

From A.D. 523 onwards, he shared with his herd the sufferings of the war which ended with the extermination of the Burgundian royal family and the union of his seat with the Frankish empire. 

In 538 he attended, perhaps as chairman, the third council of Orleans, which was held for the establishment of church discipline. 

He died before the middle of the sixth century, around the year 546. His name is inserted in the Roman Martyrology on that day. He is said to have been buried in the church of the monastery or the hermitage of Isle-Barbe. 

(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)