ST VICTOR OF XANTEN, MARTYR - 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 VICTOR OF XANTEN, MARTYR 

Saint Victor was a martyr at Xanten, whose story is closely connected to that of St Gereon. He is mentioned in the Roman Martyrology.

In the Mainz Proprium it is related that "During Emperor Maximianus' reign, a Roman cohort under Victor's leadership had come into the vicinity of the town of Troy, now called Xanten, and camped there with their commander in the green meadows. When the men who had been sent after them had located them, they seized them and drowned them in the surrounding swamps." 

Except for the town of Xanten, St Victor is also patron saint of Dülmen. 

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

PRAYER:

Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that we who celebrate the anniversary of the death of your holy martyr Victor may by his intercession be delivered from all evils that threaten us. 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.