ST HONORIUS, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, CONFESSOR - 30 SEPTEMBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN SEPTEMBER

Saints celebrated on the 30th of September

WELCOME!

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.

SAINT HONORIUS, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, CONFESSOR 

⬅️ Saintly Archbishops of Canterbury

This apostolic man was a Roman by birth, and a monk by profession. St Gregory the Great, from the experience which he had of his great virtue, and skill in sacred literature, made choice of him for one of the holy missionaries whom he sent to convert the English nation to the faith. 

Upon the death of St Justus about the year 630, St Honorius was chosen archbishop of Canterbury. He was consecrated at Lincoln by St Paulinus, archbishop of York, and received the pall sent from Rome by Pope Honorius I. together with a letter, in which his holiness ordained, that whenever either the see of Canterbury or York should become vacant, the other archbishop should ordain the person that should be duly elected.

Our holy archbishop saw with joy the faith of Christ extended daily in many different parts of this island, and the spirit of the gospel to take deep root in the hearts of many chosen servants of God. 

His care in filling all places with pastors truly dead to the world and all worldly interests or views, and his own zealous labours and shining example contributed exceedingly, with the divine blessing, to so wonderful an increase. 

He died on September 30, 653, and was succeeded by Deusdedit. His name occurs in the Roman Martyrology. 

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 📷 Ruins of St Augustine's Abbey, where St Honorius was buried. During the the reign of Henry VIII, some buildings belonging to the Abbey were converted into residences for the king and his friends - the reformation. In the remaining parts, dismantling and sale of material began in 1541. Some of the stone was used in the fortifications of the Pale of Calais, but more of it was sold for profit. The extensive, priceless library was destroyed and the monastery valuables plundered)