Feast of Sant’Aredio di Limoges

Sant'Aredio di Limoges, ora pro nobis

August 25th is the Feast of Sant’Aredio di Limoges (d.591), also known as St. Yrieix, Abbot. Founder of several churches and monasteries in France, many healing miracles have been attributed to his intercession. He is invoked against deformities and inflammations of the aorta.

In celebration, we’re posting a prayer to St. Aredius. The accompanying photo of the walnut and jewel-inlaid silver and gold reliquary busts of St. Yrieix was taken at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.* Evviva Sant’Aredio di Limoges!

Prayer to St. Aredius

God our Father, enable us who honor the memory of St. Aredius, to share with him in the joy of eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen

* Regrettably, the town of Saint-Yrieix-La-Perche, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France, claims the reliquaries were illegally purchased by the museum in 1906 and has requested that they be returned.