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SAINT HONOBERT, BISHOP OF SENS - 5 JANUARY

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JANUARY Saints celebrated on the 5th of January SAINT HONOBERT, BISHOP OF SENS - 5 JANUARY A page of one of Fortunatus Hueber's Saints' books, "Stammenbuch..." (1693) Saint Honobert (Honobertus , also Aunobertus) , was the successor of Saint Ebbo on the episcopal chair of Sens (Senones) , who - according to the Bollandists * - died in the first half of the 8th century, in 738. According to others, however, he passed on around 755.  His father, Saint Honulphus, became his successor in that seat. The Florarium * mentions him on September 28. The Bollandists * list him on January 5 and state in the appendix (I. 1094) that he is venerated at Sens together with his father on the same day. (Information from  Stadler 's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints,  Volume  2, Augsburg, 1861, p. 759) *A hagiography source used by the authors  Stadler's Complete Encyclopedia of Saints - Sources and Abbreviations PRAYER: Grant, we beseech you, almigh...