Feast of Sant'Andrea Avellino

Sant'Andrea Avellino, ora pro nobis

November 10th is the Feast of Sant'Andrea Avellino, Theatine priest and confessor. Invoked against strokes, apoplexy and sudden death, he is one of the co-patrons of Naples and patron saint of Castronuovo di Sant'Andrea, a small town in the Province of Potenza in Basilicata, where he was born in 1521. In celebration, I'm posting a prayer to Saint Andrew Avellino against sudden death. The accompanying photo was taken at Saint Andrew Avellino Roman Catholic Church (35-60 158th Street) in Flushing, New York. Evviva Sant'Andrea!

Prayer to Saint Andrew Avellino Against Sudden Death 

I. O most glorious saint, whom God has made our protector against apoplexy, seeing that thou thyself didst die of that disease, we earnestly pray thee to preserve us from an evil so dangerous and so common. Pater, Ave, Gloria. 

Verse  By the intercession of St. Andrew, stricken with apoplexy.   

Response  From a sudden and unprovided death deliver us O Lord. 

II. O most glorious saint, if ever by the just judgment of God we should be stricken with apoplexy, we earnestly beseech thee to obtain for us time enough to receive the Last Sacraments and die in the grace of God. Pater, Ave, Gloria. 

V.  By the intercession of St. Andrew, stricken with apoplexy. 

R.  From  a sudden and unprovided death deliver us, O Lord. 

III. O most glorious saint, who didst endure, before dying, a terrible agony, through the assaults of the devil, from which the Blessed Virgin and St. Michael delivered thee, we earnestly beseech thee to assist us in the tremendous moment of our death.  Pater, Ave, Gloria. 

V.  By the intercession of St. Andrew, stricken with apoplexy. 

R.  From a sudden and unprovided death deliver us, O Lord. 

Amen.