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ST HONORATUS, ARCHBISHOP OF ARLES - 16 JANUARY

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY

Saints celebrated on the 16th of January

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 SAINT HONORATUS, ARCHBISHOP OF ARLES, ABBOT

Saint Honoratus was of a consular Roman family, then settled in Gaul, and was well versed in the liberal arts. 

HE RENOUNCED THE WORSHIP OF IDOLS

In his youth he renounced the worship of idols, and gained his elder brother Venantius to Christ, whom he also inspired with a contempt of the world. They desired to renounce it entirely, but a fond Pagan father put continual obstacles in their way: at length they took with them St Caprais, a holy hermit, for their director, and sailed from Marseilles to Greece, with the design to live there unknown, in some desert. 

HE PLANNED TO LIVE THERE UNKNOWN

Venantius soon died happily at Methone; and Honoratus, being also sick, was obliged to return with his conductor. He first led an eremitical life in the mountains near Frejus. 

Two small islands lie in the sea near that coast: one larger, at a nearer distance from the continent, called Lero, now St Margaret’s; the other smaller and more remote, two leagues from Antibes, named Lerins, at present St Honore, from our saint, where he settled; and being followed by others, he there founded the famous monastery of Lerins, about the year 400. 

HE FOUNDED THE FAMOUS MONASTERY OF LERINS

Some he appointed to live in community; others, who seemed more perfect, in separate cells, as anchorets. 

HIS RULE

His rule was chiefly borrowed from that of St Pachomius. 

Nothing can he more amiable than the description St Hilary has given of the excellent virtues of this company of saints, especially of the charity, concord, humility, compunction, and devotion which reigned amongst them, under the conduct of our holy abbot. 

HE BECAME ARCHBISHOP

He was by compulsion consecrated archbishop of Arles in 426, and died exhausted with austerities and apostolical labours in 429. 

HIS RELICS

The style of his letters was clear and affecting: they were penned with an admirable delicacy, elegance, and sweetness, as St Hilary assures. The loss of all these precious monuments is much regretted. His tomb is shown empty under the high altar of the church which bears his name at Arles; his body having been translated to Lerins in 1391, where the greater part remains.  

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 📷 1. St Honoratus, 2. Lerins) 



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