St Andrew Avellino, C.

Today is the Feast of St Andrew Avellino, C.

The Collect of the Feast from the Roman Breviary:

O God, who didst inspire thy blessed Confessor Andrew with a firm purpose to grow and increase daily in all virtue, and didst wondrously dispose him to walk in thy ways : grant us, by his merits and intercession, to be partakers of the grace that thou didst bestow upon him ; that we may ever earnestly seek after all things that are perfect, and attain with gladness to the heights of thy heavenly glory. Through

The Proper Lessons may be read here.

From the Catholic Encyclopædia.

From CatholicForum.

From Wikipedia.

From Magnificat.