Day 1 of 9
Day 1 — Saint Martin’s Heavenly Crown — Saint Martin of Tours Novena, Day 1
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Anthony van Dyck, Saint Martin Sharing His Cloak with a Beggar (1621), Church of Saint Martin, Zaventem, Belgium. Wikimedia Commons public-domain painting: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anthony_van_Dyck_-_Saint_Martin_sharing_his_cloak_with_a_beggar.jpg
Sign of the Cross
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Opening prayer
Make the Sign of the Cross and ask for Saint Martin’s intercession. Read and pray today’s verse of the traditional sequence in his honor, then offer your intention to God.
Prayer for day 1
Rejoice, O Sion, remembering the day when Martin, equal in zeal to the apostles, conquered the world and was crowned among the citizens of heaven.
Saint Martin of Tours, pray for us.
Traditional prayers
Our Father
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
Hail Mary
Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
Glory Be
Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning is now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen.
Closing prayer
Saint Martin of Tours, pray for us. Amen.
Sign of the Cross
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Source · Traditional Latin sequence Gaude Sion for Saint Martin of Tours, with historical translation and commentary in Dom Prosper Guéranger, The Liturgical Year, November 11, public-domain nineteenth-century text: https://sensusfidelium.com/the-liturgical-year-dom-prosper-gueranger/november/november-11-st-martin-bishop-confessor/ . The nine prayer days provide fresh English translations of a selection of the historical Saint Martin stanzas. This is a nine-day devotional arrangement of a specific historical hymn, not a separately attested original novena booklet. Cover Anthony van Dyck, Wikimedia Commons public domain.