ON SAINT HONORATUS
BISHOP OF AMIENS IN GAUL.
ABOUT THE YEAR 600.
PrefaceHonoratus, Bishop of Amiens in Gaul (S.)
BY THE AUTHOR G. H.
[1] Celebrated is the memory of St. Honoratus in the ancient Breviaries of the Church of Amiens, which we have printed in the year 1550 and 1554: where on this May 16 is prescribed with the highest solemnity his feast through an entire Octave to be celebrated. An Ecclesiastical Office, There is preserved his sacred body, in the church formerly to SS. Peter and Paul dedicated, which now is called of St. Firmin the Confessor, into the city translated under the first incursions of the Normans. For he died in a village of the County of Ponthieu, The body at Amiens, Port called, where also he had been born: whence these verses for the first Antiphon at Vespers are recited in the cited Breviary. Whom Port begot, withdrew where was his rise, This his own garden, to him is setting and rise. Ignatius Joseph of Jesus Mary, a Discalced Carmelite, in bk. 1 of the Ecclesiastical History of Abbeville ch. 52 asserts, the first burial at Port. in the said place formerly to have been a castle, in which born had been St. Honoratus, of the Counts of Ponthieu (as is believed) sprung, if however that County from those times was instituted. There he added behind after the high altar even now to be shown his burial, formerly with many miracles illustrious: where he says St. Austroberta, when still younger out of devotion thither she had come, took the resolution herself to God to consecrate. We gave her Life February 10, in whose chapter first it is handed down at Port at the Somme river in a monastery the monastic life to have begun. William de Mascon, Bishop of Amiens, in the year 1301 founded among the Abbeville people of his predecessors a Bishop of Amiens, and to them gave the sacred head of St. Honoratus the Patron of the Church: a Monastery at Abbeville. which in a silver head enclosed even now there with the highest veneration is preserved. Most celebrated also at Paris is the name of St. Honoratus, a Church at Paris. from whom a very long street its name takes, on account of a church to this Saint dedicated, and in the year 1204 by Renoldus Cherey and his spouse Sibylla built: of which widely treats James Brulius in the Theater of Parisian antiquities bk. 3 p. 801 and following.
[2] The complete MS. Acts of the life and miracles of St. Honoratus are extant both at Paris in the said St. Honoratus's church, of which makes mention the aforesaid Brulius; MS. Acts both at Abbeville in the said Charterhouse, to which were subscribed these words: This book is of the house of St. Honoratus of the Carthusian Order, near Abbeville, in Ponthieu of the Amiens diocese. It is a little book of eight leaves in parchment written, which from the Rev. Father Francis Fuzelerius the Prior received, and to him afterward returned, took care for us to be copied the Rev. Lord John