Saint Honoratus of Arles
![[Saint Honoratus of Arles]](http://saints.sqpn.com/sainth4v.jpg "Saint Honoratus of Arles from 'Pictorial Lives of the Saints', 1892")
Also known as
- Honore of Arles
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
- 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
- Ecole Glossary, by Karen Rae Keck
- For All The Saints, by Katherine Rabenstein
- Google Directory
- Kirken i Norge
- Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
- New Catholic Dictionary
- Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon
- Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
- Pictorial Lives of the Saints
MLA Citation
- “Saint Honoratus of Arles”. Saints.SQPN.com. 18 October 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-honoratus-of-arles/>
