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ST BARSIMAEUS, BISHOP AND MARTYR - 30 JANUARY

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 30th of January 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,...

ST ALDEGONDE OF MAUBEUGE, VIRGIN AND ABBESS - 30 JANUARY

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 30th of January WELCOME! ST ALDEGONDE OF MAUBEUGE, VIRGIN AND ABBESS Saint Aldegonde (Aldegondes) was daughter of Walbert , of royal blood of France, and born in Hainault about the year 630. She consecrated herself to God by a vow of virginity, when very young, and resisted all solicitations to marriage, serving God in the house of her holy parents, till, in 638, she took the religious veil, and founded and governed a great house of holy virgins at Maubeuge. SHE WAS FAVOURED WITH AN EMINENT GIFT OF PRAYER She was favoured with an eminent gift of prayer, and many revelations; but was often tried by violent slanders and persecutions, which she looked upon as the highest favours of the divine mercy, begging of God that she might be found worthy to suffer still more for his sake. HER HOLY DEATH His divine providence sent her a lingering and most painful cancer in her breast. The saint bore the torture of her distemper, a...

ST MARTINA OF ROME, VIRGIN AND MARTYR - 30 JANUARY

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 30th of January WELCOME! SAINT MARTINA OF ROME, VIRGIN AND MARTYR Saint Martina of Rome was a noble Roman virgin, who glorified God, suffering many torments and a cruel death for her faith in the capital city of the world, in the third century. HER RELICS WERE DISCOVERED IN A VAULT There stood a chapel consecrated to her memory in Rome, which was frequented with great devotion in the time of St Gregory the Great. Her relics were discovered in a vault, in the ruins of her old church, and translated with great pomp in the year 1634, under Pope Urban VIII. who built a new church in her honour, and composed himself the hymns used in her office in the Roman Breviary. SHE IS ONE OF ROME'S PARTICULAR PATRONS The city of Rome ranks her among its particular patrons. She is mentioned in the Martyrologies of Ado, Usuard, etc. The history of the discovery of her relics was published by Honoratus of Viterbo, an Oratorian. S...

ST VALERIUS OF TRIER, BISHOP - 29 JANUARY

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 29th of January 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,...

ST AQUILINUS, PRIEST AND MARTYR - 29 JANUARY

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 29th of January WELCOME! SAINT AQUILINUS, PRIEST AND MARTYR Saint Aquilinus was born to noble parents in Würzburg in Franconia and, even as a boy, defended Catholic truth against Arian-minded classmates. HE STUDIED IN COLOGNE Sent to Cologne by his parents to study, he joined the bishop there, became canon and subsequently provost at the cathedral church. THEY WANTED TO HAVE HIM AS THEIR BISHOP But when, after the bishop's death, the clergy and people of Cologne considered the idea of electing him (Aquilinus) as their bishop, he fled to Paris in order to escape this dignity. At that time, the plague was spreading through the area, which, by his ardent prayer, he caused to cease. The people were so grateful to him for taking the plague away by his prayers, and he won the love of all, so that they wanted him to be bishop as well. HIS PRAYERS RESTORED THE CITY TO HEALTH But even here he fled, went t...