Traditional Catholic Novena
St. Andrew Avellino Novena
Prayed against sudden death, for final perseverance, for help in temptation, and for time to receive the sacraments well.
St. Andrew Avellino is traditionally invoked as patron of against sudden death, happy death, Naples, Sicily, the dying.
Saint Andrew Avellino, traditional devotional image
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Principal Prayer for Each Day
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In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
O most glorious Saint Andrew Avellino, whom God has made our protector against apoplexy, seeing that you yourself did die of that disease, we earnestly pray to you to preserve us from an evil so dangerous and so common.
By the intercession of St Andrew, stricken with apoplexy, from a sudden and unprovoked death, Deliver us, O Lord.
O most glorious saint, if ever by the just judgment of God we should be stricken by any fatal illness, we earnestly beseech you to obtain for us time enough to receive the Last Sacraments and die in the grace of God.
By the intercession of St Andrew, stricken with apoplexy, from a sudden and unprovoked death, Deliver us, O Lord.
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 you, we earnestly beseech you to assist us in the tremendous moment of our death.
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By the intercession of St Andrew, stricken with apoplexy, from a sudden and unprovoked death, Deliver us, O Lord.
St Andrew, pray for us. St Andrew, pray for us. St Andrew, pray for us.
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
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