Today is the feast of Blessed Salvio Huix, the Oratory’s first martyr to be beatified. We blessed his image in church, which has recently been redecorated.
Almighty eternal God, thou hast allowed pictures and statues of thy Saints to be painted and carved, so that as often as we look upon them with our bodily eyes, we may recall with our more inward eyes their deeds and their sanctity and learn to imitate them. In thy goodness, therefore, bless and sanctify this picture fashioned to honour and to recall thy blessed Martyr and Bishop Salvio to our minds; and grant to all who honour and invoke the aid of the glorious Martyr Bishop with this picture before their eyes, that they may obtain grace from thee in this life and everlasting glory in the next, by the merits of that same Saint and his power with thee. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
O Lord, who raised up the bishop Blessed Salvio to be a shepherd after thine own heart, to feed thy people with knowledge and understanding, to lay down his life for his sheep and to become the first of the sons of St Philip to shed his blood for Christ; grant us by his example to preach the faith in a world that knows thee not, and by his intercession strengthen the faith of our brothers and sisters who are persecuted today for their faith in thy Son, who lives and reigns with thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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