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Intercession of the Saints is a Christian doctrine that maintains that saints can intercede for others. To intercede is to go or come between two parties, to plead before one of them on behalf of the other.
The closing line, referring to "the Babylonian woe", references the figure known as the Whore of Babylon, from Revelation 17, which describes her as being 'drunk on the blood of the saints'; the Reformation era Protestant interpretation of this figure was that the Catholic Church was the Whore of Babylon, which was persecuting the saints.
Prayer is directed to God; one prays with and for the saints as they pray with and for us through Christ to God. Article XXII of the Thirty-nine Articles states the "Romish doctrine" of the invocation of saints in the 16th century was not grounded in Scripture, hence many low-church or broad-church Anglicans consider prayer to the saints to be ...
The first to appear in print was in a 1933 German Sunday newspaper article, which stated that, as a result of the vision, shortly after 1880 Leo ordered the prayer to Saint Michael to be recited. In reality, it was only in 1884 that the Pope instituted the Leonine Prayers, still at that time without the prayer to Saint Michael. [26]
Saint Sebastian Interceding for the Plague Stricken (at top), [19] Josse Lieferinxe, 1497–1499, The Walters Art Museum. The belief that Saint Sebastian was a defense against the plague was a medieval addition to his reputation, which largely accounts for the enormous increase in his importance in the Late Middle Ages. [20]
Saint Pantaleon was the patron of physicians, Saint Cyriacus invoked against temptation on the deathbed, and Saints Christopher, Barbara, and Catherine of Alexandria for protection against a sudden and unprovided-for death. Saint Giles was prayed to for a good confession, and Saint Eustace as healer of family troubles.
Deus, in adiutorium meum intende in the Book of Hours of Marguerite Louise d'Orléans Deus, in adiutorium meum intende in Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry "Deus, in adiutorium meum intende", with the response "Domine, ad adiuvandum me festina" (respectively, "O G OD, come to my assistance" and "O L ORD, make haste to help me") are the first verse of Psalm 70 (Psalm 69 in the Vulgate): "Make ...
For Morning and Evening Prayer, the lessons did not change if it was a saints' day. The readings for Holy Communion did change if it was a feast day. This became a problem when a moveable feast fell on the same day as a fixed feast, but the prayer book provided no instructions for determining which feast to celebrate.