Saint Honoratus of Arles
![[Saint Honoratus of Arles]](sainth4v.jpg "Saint Honoratus of Arles from 'Pictorial Lives of the Saints', 1892; please do not write to ask about the image")
- Also known as
- Honore of Arles
- 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).
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
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against drought
against misfortune
against rain
for rain
- Representation
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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
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Biographisch-Bibliographisches KirchenLexikon deutsch
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 norwegian
Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler
New Catholic Dictionary
Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon deutsch
Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints, by Matthew Bunson, Margaret Bunson, and Stephen Bunson
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