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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 23rd of August 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, s...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN AUGUST Saints celebrated on the 23rd of August WELCOME! SAINT EUGENIUS, BISHOP IN IRELAND  ➡️ Saint Eoghan of Ardstraw, Bishop   Above: Saint Eugenius, below: detail from St Eugenius, Co. Derry The first establishment of the see of Derry was at a place called Ardfrath , on the river Derg, of which this saint [Eugenius, Eugene, Owen] was the first bishop.  AN EXCELLENT AND ASSIDUOUS PREACHER He was an excellent and assiduous preacher, and is said to have been of the royal blood of the kings of Leinster.  He died on this day in 618, and was buried in his own churchyard, over whose sepulchre a chapel was afterwards built. Other writers place his death in 570.  LONDONDERRY Notes: Derry is called in the old Roman Provincial, Darrich, and by ancient writers, Doire Chalgaich ; i. e. the Oak grove of Calgaich ; from whence Adamnan, translating the name into Latin, calls it Roboretum Calgachi . It is also called Doire Choluim-chille , or C...