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Honoratus

For the 7th century saint, see Honoratus of Amiens
Honoratus of Amiens

Saint Honoratus of Amiens was the seventh bishop of Amiens. His calendar of saints is May 16....
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Saint Honoratus (ca. 350 – 6 January 429

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) was Archbishop of Arles.

There is some disagreement concerning his place of birth, and the date of his death is still disputed, being according to certain authors, 14 January or 15 January. It is believed that he was born in the north of Gaul

Gaul

Gaul is the name used for the region of Western Europe comprising part of present day northern Italy, France, Belgium, western Switzerland and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River Rhine....
and that he belonged to an illustrious pagan

Paganism

Paganism is the blanket term given to describe religions and spiritual practices of pre-Christian Europe, and by extension a term for polytheistic?traditions or folk religion?worldwide seen from a Western or Christian viewpoint....
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For the 7th century saint, see Honoratus of Amiens
Honoratus of Amiens

Saint Honoratus of Amiens was the seventh bishop of Amiens. His calendar of saints is May 16....
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Saint Honoratus (ca. 350 – 6 January 429

429

Gaul

Paganism

Christianity

Christianity is a Monotheistic religion #Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus as New Testament view on Jesus' life....
with his brother Venantius

Venantius

Venantius may refer to:* Venantius Fortunatus , Latin poet, bishop, and saint* Venantius of Camerino , aka Saint Venanzio, martyr, patron saint of Camerino...
, he embarked with him from Marseilles about 368, under the guidance of a holy person named Caprasius, to visit the holy places of Palestine

Palestine

Palestine is a name which has been widely used since Roman times to refer to the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. It is derived from a name used already much earlier for a narrower geographical region, mainly along the coastal region....
and the lauræ

Lavra

In Eastern Orthodox Church and certain other Eastern Christian communities Lavra or Laura originally meant a cluster of cells or caves for hermits, with a Church and sometimes a refectory at the center....
of Syria

Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
and Egypt

Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
. But the death of Venantius, occurring suddenly at Methone

Methone

Methone can refer to:* Methone , one of the seven Alkyonides, daughters of the giant Alkyoneus in Greek mythology*Methone , a small moon of Saturn, discovered in 2004...
, Achaia, prevented the pious travellers from going further. They returned to Gaul through Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, and, after having stopped at Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, Honoratus went on into Provence

Provence

Provence is a region of southeastern France on the Mediterranean adjacent to Italy. It is part of the administrative regions of France of Provence-Alpes-C?te d'Azur....
and, encouraged by Leontius, bishop of Fréjus, took up his abode in the wild Lérins Island

Lérins Islands

The L?rins Islands are a group of four Mediterranean islands off the French Riviera, near Cannes. The two largest islands in this group are the ?le Sainte-Marguerite and the ?le Saint-Honorat....
today called the Île Saint-Honorat

Île Saint-Honorat

The ?le Saint-Honorat is the second largest of the L?rins Islands, about a mile off shore from the French Riviera town of Cannes. The island is approximately 1.5 kilometers in length and 400 meters wide....
, with the intention of living there in solitude.

Numerous disciples soon gathered around him, including Lupus of Troyes

Lupus of Troyes

Saint Lupus was an early bishop of Troyes. Born at Toul, he was brother-in-law to Hilary of Arles, as he had married one of Hilary?s sisters, Pimeniola....
, Eucherius of Lyon

Eucherius of Lyon

Saint Eucherius, bishop of Lyon, was a high-born and high-ranking ecclesiastic in the Christian Church of Gaul. He is remembered for his letters advocating extreme self-abnegation....
, and Hilary of Arles

Hilary of Arles

Saint Hilary of Arles was a bishop of Arles.In early youth he entered the abbey of L?rins Abbey then presided over by his kinsman Saint Honoratus , and succeeded Honoratus in the bishopric of Arles in 429....
. Thus was founded the Monastery of Lérins

Lérins Abbey

L?rins Abbey is a Cistercian monastery on the island of ?le Saint-Honorat, one of the L?rins Islands, on the French Riviera, with an active monastic community....
, which has enjoyed so great a celebrity and which was during the fifth and sixth centuries a nursery for illustrious bishops and remarkable ecclesiastical writers. Honoratus's reputation for sanctity throughout the south-eastern portion of Gaul was such that in 426 after the assassination of Patroclus of Arles, Archbishop of Arles, he was summoned from his solitude to succeed to the government of the diocese, which the Arian

Arianism

Arianism is the theological teaching of Arius , a Christian priest, who was first ruled a heresy at the First Council of Nicea, later exonerated and then pronounced a heretic again after his death....
and Manichaean heresies had greatly disturbed. He appears to have succeeded in re-establishing order and orthodoxy, while still continuing to direct from afar the monks of Lérins. However, the acts of his brief pontificate are not known. He died in the arms of Hilary, one of his disciples and probably a relative, who was to succeed him in the See of Arles.

His various writings have not been preserved, nor has the rule which he gave to the solitaries of Lérins. John Cassian

John Cassian

Saint John Cassian , John the Ascetic, or John Cassian the Roman, is a Christian theology celebrated in both the Western and Eastern Churches for his mystical writings....
, who had visited his monastery, dedicated to him several of his "Conferences".

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La Vida de Sant Honorat

In the Middle-Ages, Honaratus was the object of a pilgrimage in the Arles region, especially around Lérins Abbey

Lérins Abbey

L?rins Abbey is a Cistercian monastery on the island of ?le Saint-Honorat, one of the L?rins Islands, on the French Riviera, with an active monastic community....
, because of the writings in Occitan of Raymond Féraud (or Raimon Feraud), a monk who composed a mythological life for him around 1300 in Roquesteron

Roquesteron

Roquesteron is a Communes of France in the Alpes-Maritimes Departments of France in southeastern France.It was part of the historic County of Nice until 1860 as Roccasterone....
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