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ST DAGOBERT II., KING AND MARTYR - 23 DECEMBER

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 23rd of December 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 live...

ST IVO OF CHARTRES, BISHOP - 23 DECEMBER

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 23rd December 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 l...

ST VICTORIA, VIRGIN AND MARTYR - 23 DECEMBER

TEN MARTYRS OF CRETE - 23 DECEMBER

ST THORLAK THORHALLSON, BISHOP - 23 DECEMBER

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 23rd of December WELCOME! SAINT THORLAK THORHALLSON, BISHOP The Church was established in Iceland by the time of Saint Thorlak's birth in 1133. A very pious and bright farmer's son, St Thorlak received extensive religious instruction from a local priest. HE STUDIED THEOLOGY IN FRANCE AND ENGLAND He was sent to study theology in France and England and was himself ordained a priest at a young age. During the time abroad he vowed to live by the monastic rule of St Augustine . This rule committed a priest not only to celibacy, but also to a life in community without personal possessions, after the manner of the apostles in the Church's earliest days. HE FOUNDED A MONASTERY IN ICELAND Upon his return to Iceland he founded a monastery according to the Augustinian rule, which became renowned as a place of prayer and study. Several years after the founding of the monastery, the Norwegian Archbishop Augustine Erlendsso...

ST JOHN STONE, MARTYR - 23 DECEMBER

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 23rd of December WELCOME! SAINT JOHN STONE, MARTYR Blessed John was an English martyr, executed at the Dane-John, Canterbury, probably in December, 1539, for denying the royal supremacy. AN AUGUSTINIAN FRIAR AND A DOCTOR OF DIVINITY He was an Austin [Augustinian] Friar of Canterbury, and a doctor of divinity. He is probably the Austin Friar of whom Bishop Ingworth complained on 14 December, 1538, that "at all times he still held and still desired to die for it, that the king may not be head of the Church of England" . "BE OF GOOD COURAGE" When in prison before his martyrdom "after an uninterrupted fast of three days, he heard a voice, but without seeing the presence of anyone, calling him by name and exhorting him to be of good courage and not to hesitate to suffer with constancy for the truth of the opinion which he had professed". [St John Stone is one of the Forty Martyrs of England ...

ST JOHN OF KANTY, PRIEST - 23 DECEMBER

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 23rd of December WELCOME! SAINT JOHN OF KANTY, PRIEST St John was born in Kanty, Poland, in 1390. He was ordained and taught at the University of Cracow for some years before becoming a parish priest at Olkuscz. He was an outstanding teacher of the faith, and his holiness and charity to all were noted. He died in 1473. PRAYER: Almighty Father, through the example of John of Kanty may we grow in the wisdom of the saints. As we show understanding and kindness to others, may we receive your forgiveness. 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.

SAINT FEAST DAY 23 DECEMBER

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER ➡️ Tomorrow ⬅️ Yesterday Saint of the Day Saint feast day December 23 Saint Servulus, Confessor Saint Carannus, Bishop Saint Dagobert II., King and Martyr Saint Elena Guerra, Foundress Blessed Hartmann, Bishop of Brixen Blessed Hermann, Provost Hildegard, Abbess of Fraumunster Saint Ivo of Chartres Saint John of Kanty, Priest Saint John Stone, Martyr Saint Marie Marguerite d'Youville, Foundress Onanus, Deacon of Ross Othnicarus Albus, Priest Theotger, Bishop of Metz Saint Thorlak Thorhallson, Bishop Saint Victoria, Virgin and Martyr Saint Eugenius and 839 Companions, Martyrs Saints Migdonius, Mardonius, and Companion, Martyrs Ten Martyrs of Crete -2312-

SAINT FEAST DAY 23 DECEMBER: ST SERVULUS

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 23rd of December WELCOME! SAINT SERVULUS OF ROME, CONFESSOR In Saint Servulus was exemplified what our divine Redeemer has taught us of Lazarus, the poor man full of sores, who lay before the gate of the rich man’s house. Servulus was a 6th century beggar, and had been afflicted with the palsy from his infancy; so that he was never able to stand, sit upright, lift his hand to his mouth, or turn himself from one side to another. His mother and brother carried him into the porch of St Clement’s church at Rome, where he lived on the alms of those that passed by. THEY CARRIED HIM TO ST CLEMENT'S CHURCH Whatever he could spare from his own subsistence he distributed among other needy persons. The sufferings and humiliation of his condition were a means of which he made the most excellent use for the sanctification of his own soul, by the constant exercise of humility patience, meekness, resignation, and...