SAINT PIRMIN, BISHOP - 3 NOVEMBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 3rd of November

 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.

SAINT PIRMIN, BISHOP 

This saint came to southern Germany as a missionary and founded several monasteries in this area (Reichenau, Murbach, Pfäffers, Mondsee, etc.).

He is often pictured with a snake. This tradition goes back to the founding document of the Reichenau monastery - when the saint arrived on the island in Lake Constance, all the poisonous snakes living there had disappeared. 

The booklet "Dicta Pirminii" written by him has been preserved as a unique testimony of his era and the missionary work of the time. Pirmin died around 755 at his Hornbach monastery. Old accounts take November 3 as the anniversary of his death (memorial and patronage).

His relics came to Innsbruck (Tyrol, Austria) in 1575. Today, they rest under the side altar of the Jesuit Church. St Pirmin has always proved to be a help in dire need to the people of Innsbruck. In the plague year of 1611, amid all the calamity, the Innsbruck magistrate vowed to build a church in honour of Saints Sebastian, Pirmin and Roche. This is how St Pirmin became the patron saint of Innsbruck.

(Information from:

https://www.dibk.at/Media/Pfarren/Innsbruck-St.-Pirmin/Hl.-Pirmin

- 📷 St Pirmin - Coat of Arms Queichhambach)

PRAYER:

May the intercession of the blessed Pirmin, your bishop, commend us to you, so that through his merits we may obtain that which we cannot accomplish by our own. 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.