ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN APRIL
Saints celebrated on the 24th of April
SAINT SABAS, MARTYR
Today, we also commemorate Saint Sabas. The Roman Martyrology states:
"At Rome, Saint Sabas, a military officer, who bravely confessed Christ before the judge when he was accused of visiting the Christians in prison. For this he was burned with torches and thrown into a caldron of boiling pitch, out of which he came uninjured. Seventy men were converted to Christ at the sight of this miracle, and as they all remained unshaken in the confession of the faith, they were put to the sword. Sabas, however, terminated his martyrdom by being cast into the river."
PRAYER:
Grant to your Church, we beseech you, O Lord, through the intercession of your holy martyr Sabas, not to think high-mindedly, but to grow in humility pleasing to you; that, despising what is base, she may with unbounded love diligently do whatever is right. 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.
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