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Litanies Charlemagne
Saint Charlemagne, who made France the Empire and kingdom of Jesus Christ, you who gave faith to France . You will be our great defender, our great protector, you who consecrated France to Jesus Christ in his days of peril and struggle, have mercy on her.
Saint Charlemagne, who was a great warrior of faith... May the King of Kings, the God of Armies and France, not forget us. Soon great miracles will show that you are indeed God's friend. Today the faith is shaken, it withers, raise the faith of the French homeland, have mercy on France!
Saint Charlemagne, who restored the faith, who gave to the Holy Pontiffs..., have mercy on the Supreme Pontiff and on France and on the poor French people who ask you for peace.
O Saint Charlemagne, do not be deaf to our voice. Be like Saint Martin of Tours, come to our help and deliver the Holy Father. He suffers and he groans. You love the Holy Father and all the Popes, have mercy. Come to his help, have mercy on France!
St. Charlemagne, so powerful in France, who surpassed all the great leaders who were not Christians, who destroyed idolatry, who was always a conqueror, who walked before those great leaders and confounded them because the God of the armies was with you, have mercy on France!
Saint Charlemagne, who made faith flourish everywhere, who carried your flag in the midst of a people who did not know him, you walked with the cross on your chest in the midst of all those leaders and great men who did not know Jesus Christ. Today France is threatened by great misfortunes and without the help of the Sacred Heart, we would fall like victims for the executioner, have mercy on us!
You and Saint Martin will be the great defenders of France with the other holy Kings and Queens of France. From Heaven, pray for our deliverance.
Saint Charlemagne, you who travelled through so many provinces, building churches and chapels to make people worship the God of mercy, you who feared nothing to make the Sign of the Cross on your forehead, thus making it known that you were Christian and loved by God, which was the cause that the great ones submitted to you. Some, however, resisted, and you invoked God and won them by your faith...
O Saint Charlemagne, France is in great need of renewing her faith, she needs ..., this white flag, France is very black. Show her the cross you carried on your heart and the courage you once had, exposing yourself to the risk of losing your life for her.
O Saint Charlemagne, you had this word on your lips: "I have faith engraved in my heart". Have mercy on France, on the Church and its pastors, and on the unfortunates who groan.
Having made religion known in this way, you raised the banner of faith, you had it carried by your Officers on the battlefield. To those who murmured, you said: "My children, do not murmur, I have faith. Let it blossom, this faith. Let's raise shrines.
One day, France will not forget you; she will say that it was you who made this faith blossom. I am a Christian, and he made his soldiers repeat it. His heart was good.
Saint Charlemagne was always a victor and he will fight for us. One day he will be revered by all. France is calling you, she needs the beautiful tree of faith and to cry out also: "I am a Christian"! She has succumbed, she is well neglected by men. Have pity on her!
Saint Charlemagne thanked God for her victory. He implanted the faith in France with many sorrows, vigils and fasts. Have mercy on the French people. We call you, we worship you with Saint Martin of Tours, but soon France will win!
Saint Charlemagne, have mercy on those who have lost their faith. We hope in you. Let this beautiful purity germinate!
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Litanies are prayers characterised by the chanted repetition of intercessory requests. These intercessory requests are generally addressed to the Virgin Mary, the Sacred Heart or the Saints and are intended to solicit their intercession with God.
When to recite the litanies and what are they for?
The litanies are generally recited individually, depending on the difficulty for which help is desired, in groups (in families or in prayer groups) and in certain solemn liturgical ceremonies of the Catholic Church.
The Litanies of the Saints for example, are sung during the Easter Vigil, during baptism ceremonies, priestly or episcopal ordinations and on the feast of the Saints (All Saints).
The prayer of the Litany is foreseen, in particular, during the Easter Vigil, before the blessing of the baptismal water, and also during the celebration of baptism and ordinations to the sacred order of the episcopate, presbyterate and diaconate, as well as in the rite of the consecration of virgins and of religious profession in the rite of dedication of a church and an altar, during rogations, during Masses with stations and during penitential processions, to order the Evil One away in exorcisms, and finally to recommend the dying to the mercy of God.
The Litany of the Saints, which contains elements from both liturgical tradition and popular piety, illustrates the Church's trust in the intercession of the Saints, and highlights her experience of the communion that unites the Church in the heavenly Jerusalem and the Church still on pilgrimage on earth. It is permitted to invoke in the Litany of the Saints the names of those listed in the liturgical calendars of dioceses and religious institutes.
It is evident that it is forbidden to insert in the Litanies the names of persons whose cult is not recognised.
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Charlemagne, from the Latin Carolus Magnus, or Charles I, known as "the Great", born at an unknown date (probably during the year 742, or even 747 or 748, perhaps on 2 April), died on 28 January 814 at Aachen, was a Frankish king and emperor. He belonged to the Carolingian dynasty. Son of Pepin the Short, he was king of the Franks from 768, became king of the Lombards by conquest in 774 and was crowned emperor in Rome by Pope Leo III on 24 or 25 December 800, raising a dignity that had disappeared in the West since the deposition, three centuries earlier, of Romulus Augustus in 476.
As a warrior king, he significantly expanded his kingdom through a series of military campaigns, particularly against the pagan Saxons, whose submission was difficult and violent (772-804), but also against the Lombards in Italy and the Muslims of al-Andalus. A reforming sovereign, concerned with religious unification and culture, he protected the arts and letters and was at the origin of the "Carolingian renaissance". His immediate political work, the Empire, did not survive him for long, however. Following the Germanic custom of succession, Charlemagne planned the division of the Empire between his three sons in 806. After many ups and downs, the Empire was not finally divided between three of his grandsons until 843, at the time of the Treaty of Verdun.
The feudal fragmentation of the following centuries, then the formation of rival nation-states in Europe, condemned to impotence those who explicitly attempted to restore the Western Empire, in particular the sovereigns of the Holy Roman Empire, from Otto I in 962 to Charles V in the 16th century, and even Napoleon I, who was haunted by the example of the most eminent of the Carolingians.
The figure of Charlemagne was the subject of political issues in Europe, particularly between the eleventh and nineteenth centuries, between the Germanic nation, which considered its "Holy Roman Empire" to be the legitimate successor of the Carolingian emperor, and the French nation, which made him a central element of the dynastic continuity of the Capetians. Charlemagne is sometimes considered the 'Father of Europe' for having brought together a significant part of Western Europe and for having laid down principles of government which the great European states have inherited.
The two main ninth-century texts that depict the real Charlemagne, Eginhard's Vita Caroli and the Gesta Karoli Magni attributed to Notker the Beggar, a monk of St. Gallen, also halo him with legends and myths that were taken up in the following centuries: "There is the Charlemagne of vassalage and feudal society, the Charlemagne of the Crusade and Reconquest, the Charlemagne who invented the Crown of France or the Imperial Crown, the Charlemagne who is poorly canonised but held to be a true saint of the Church, the Charlemagne of the good schoolchildren.
Charlemagne is, by toleration of Pope Benedict XIV, a Catholic Blessed celebrated locally on 28 January. In fact, in 1165, Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa obtained the canonisation of Charlemagne by Antipope Paschal III. Many dioceses in the north of France then included Charlemagne in their calendars and in 1661 the University of Paris chose him as its patron saint. His relics are still venerated today in Aachen Cathedral. However, the Catholic Church has removed from its calendar "the emperor who converted the Saxons by the sword rather than by the peaceful preaching of the Gospel".
There are prayers that are reputed to be extremely effective (especially the famous Oraison de Saint Charlemagne against sudden death, drowning, poisoning, epilepsy, lightning, enemies, etc., favourable to pregnant women, etc., which has glowing testimonies for those who have already used it) attributed to Charlemagne.
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