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ST AUBERT OF RENNES - 1 FEBRUARY

    ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN FEBRUARY Saints celebrated on the 1st of February 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 thei...

ST AUBERT, BISHOP - 13 DECEMBER

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN DECEMBER Saints celebrated on the 13th of December WELCOME! SAINT AUBERT, BISHOP OF ARRAS AND CAMBRAI, CONFESSOR This great prelate was one of the greatest ornaments of the seventh age, and eminent promoters of learning and piety in the Gallican Church.  HE WAS PIOUS FROM A VERY YOUNG AGE His youth, that most precious season of life, he dedicated to God by the mortification and the absolute conquest of sensual appetites; he was careful to employ all his time usefully, and was a great proficient in sacred learning.  Having with great zeal served the Church for many years, he was consecrated bishop of Arras and Cambray [Cambrai] on March 24, 633.  BISHOP OF ARRAS AND CAMBRAY Though solitude, in which he conversed in heaven, and consulted God on his own necessities, and those of his people, was his delight, yet he knew what he owed to others; his door was always open to persons of all ranks and conditions, and he was ever ready to afford every...