Saint Bonitus of Clermont

Also known as

• Bonet
• Bonnet
• Bont

Memorial

• 15 January

Profile

Chancellor to King Sigebert III of Austrasia. Appointed governor of Marseilles by King Thierry III in 667. Bishop of Clermont, France in 689. He resigned the see when doubts arose about the validity of his election. Bonitus spent his later years as a holy hermit at the Benedictine abbey of Manglieu, Clermont. Pilgrim to Rome, Italy.

Born

• 623 in Auvergne, France

Died

• c.710 in Lyon, France of natural causes while on the road returning to Clermont, France from Rome, Italy
• relics in the cathedral of Clermont

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Abbé Stéphane Ansart
• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Heiligen 3s
• Katherine Rabenstein
• Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Bonitus of Clermont“. Saints.SQPN.com. 15 January 2013. Web. 23 May 2013. <>