Saint Honoratus of Arles

Also known as

• Honorat
• Honore

Memorial

• 16 January

Profile

Son of a Roman consul, and raised as a pagan. Converted to Christianity as a young man. Friend of Saint Caprasius; brother of Saint Venantius. Lived and studied monasticism in Greece, Egypt and Palestine. When he returned to France, he founded the abbey of Lérins on the isle of the same name off the coast of Provence, France. Abbot of the house. In 426 he was ordered to accept the archbishopric of Arles, Gaul (modern France). Teacher of Saint Hilary of Arles, who served as secretary of Honoratus. Worked against the Arian and Manichaean heresies, and re-established orthodoxy.

Born

• c.350 in northern Gaul

Died

• January 429 of natural causes
• relics at Lérins

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Patronage

• against drought
• against misfortune
• against rain
• for rain

Representation

• bishop drawing water from a rock with his mitre nearby
• bishop on Lérins with a phoenix nearby
• driving snakes from Lérins
• overseeing the construction of the abbey at Lérins

Additional Information

• Biographisch-Bibliographisches KirchenLexikon
• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Encyclopedia, by Léon Clugnet
• Catholic Online
• Ecole Glossary, by Karen Rae Keck
• Katherine Rabenstein
• Kirken i Norge
• Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
• New Catholic Dictionary
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• Pictorial Lives of the Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Honoratus of Arles“. Saints.SQPN.com. 6 February 2013. Web. 24 May 2013. <>