Saints celebrated on the 16th of May
Prayer to the Angels and the Saints
Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation.
In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven.
Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses.
Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so that, after sharing their faith on earth, we may also experience their peace in heaven. Amen.
ST HONORATUS, BISHOP OF AMIENS, CONFESSOR
Saint Honoratus, in French, "Honoré", was a native of Ponthieu, and bishop of Amiens about the year 660.
In 1204 a church was built at Paris in his honour by a private gentleman named Renold Cherins, who four years after endowed it with a foundation for several canonries, the number of which has been since augmented. This collegiate church became very famous. It is also a small parish.
St Honoratus is titular saint of a chartreuse at Abbeville, which was founded in 1306.
(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints)
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STADLER'S ACCOUNT OF ST HONORATUS
Saint Honoratus, Bishop of Amiens (Ambianum), was born in the village of Port in the French county of Ponthieu and flourished in the sixth century.
THE TIME OF HIS EPISCOPAL ACTIVITY
His episcopal activity falls in the times of Pope Pelagius II (577-596), King Childebert II of Austrasia (575-596) and Emperor Mauritius (582-602). Even if it probably extended beyond the year 600, Migne is certainly wrong in postulating his death as late as the year 690. Under him the relics of St Fuscianus, Victoricus and Gentianus were raised.
Once when he was saying Mass, the hand of the Lord hovered over the chalice in blessing. According to the Bollandists, he died at the beginning of the 7th century in his native town of Port. In Amiens his feast was celebrated with Octave.
HIS FEAST DAY
His relics are kept in the Church of St Firminus, where they were brought from Port due to Barbarian (Norman) raids. Some calendars commemorate him on January 16th. Withford mentions him on September 1. The Roman Martyrology and the Bollandists list him on May 16.
HIS RELICS
In 1060, at the time of a great drought, a solemn raising of his relics took place. In 1204, a church was built in Paris in his honour, and a canon was attached to it. From him a suburb and a street of Paris bear the name of St-Honoré. [He is a patron of bakers.]
(Information from Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints, 1858)
PRAYER:
Grant, we beseech you, almighty God, that the venerable feast of Honoratus, your blessed bishop, may increase our devotion and promote our salvation. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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