ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN OCTOBER
Saints celebrated on the 12th of October
HONORIUS I., POPE
Pope (625 - October 12, 638), a Campanian, consecrated October 27 (Duchesne) or November 3 (Jaffé, Mann), in succession to Boniface V. [...]
Few popes did more for the restoration and beautifying of churches of Rome, and he has left us his portrait in the apsidal mosaic of Sant Agnese fueri le mura. He cared also for the temporal needs of the Romans by repairing the aqueduct of Trajan.
His extant letters show him engaged in much business. He supported the Lombard King Adalwald, who had been set aside as mad by an Arian rival. He succeeded, to some extent, with the emperor's assistance, in reuniting the schismatic metropolitan See of Aquileia to the Roman Church. He wrote to stir up the zeal of the bishops of Spain, and St Braulio of Saragossa replied.
His connexion with the British Isles is of interest. He sent St Birinus to convert the West Saxons. In 634 he gave the pallium to St Paulinus of York, as well as to Honorius of Canterbury, and he wrote a letter to King Edwin of Northumbria, which Bede has preserved. In 630 he urged the Irish bishops to keep Easter with the rest of Christendom, in consequence of which the Council of Magh Lene (Old Leighlin) was held; the Irish testified to their traditional devotion to the See of Peter, and sent a deputation to Rome "as children to their mother". On the return of these envoys, all Southern Ireland adopted the Roman use (633).
(Excerpts from Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913)
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