ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER
Saints celebrated on the 21st of September
SAINT ALEXANDER, BISHOP AND MARTYR
Today, we also commemorate Saint Alexander. The Roman Martyrology states:
"At twenty miles from Rome, on the Claudian way, the martyrdom of Saint Alexander, bishop, in the time of the emperor Antoninus. For the faith of Christ he was loaded with fetters scourged, tortured, burned with torches, torn with iron hooks, exposed to the beasts and cast into the flames, but having overcome all these torments, he was finally beheaded, and so attained the glory of eternal life. His body was afterwards carried into the city by the blessed pope Damasus, on the 26th of November, on which day his feast is to be celebrated by order of the same Pontiff."
PRAYER:
Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Saint Alexander may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. 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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