ST BONITUS, BISHOP OF AUVERGNE, CONFESSOR

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SAINT BONITUS, BISHOP OF AUVERGNE, CONFESSOR

(Commonly, in Auvergne, he is called Bonet; at Paris, Bont.)

Saint Bonet was referendary or chancellor to Sigebert III, the holy king of Austrasia; and by his zeal, religion, and justice, flourished in that kingdom under four kings.

HIS CONSECRATION AS BISHOP

After the death of Dagobert II, Thierry III made him governor of Marseilles and all Provence, in 680.

His elder brother St Avitus II, bishop of Clermont, in Auvergne, having recommended him for his successor, died in 689, and Bonet was consecrated.

A MOST PENITENTIAL LIFE AND A PILGRIMAGE

But after having governed that see ten years, with the most exemplary piety, he had a scruple whether his election had been perfectly canonical; and having consulted St Tilo, or Theau, then leading an eremitical life at Solignas, resigned his dignity, led for four years a most penitential life in the abbey of Manlieu, now of the Order of Saint Benedict, and after having made a pilgrimage to Rome, died of the gout at Lyons on January 15, 710, being eighty-six years old.

HIS RELICS

His relics were enshrined in the cathedral at Clermont; but some small portions are kept at Paris in the churches of St Germain l’Auxerrois, and St Bont, near that of St Merry.

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)

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