Honorius was a Roman by birth and a monk.
September 30
September 30
Archbishop
Honorius was a Roman by birth and a monk. St. Gregory the Great chose him as one of the missionaries sent to convert the English. When St. Justus died, Honorius was chosen archbishop of Canterbury. St. Paulinus of York consecrated him at Lincoln, and Pope Honorius I sent him the pall.
He saw the faith spread across the island and worked hard for it. He died on 30 September and was succeeded by Deusdedit. Butler and Baring-Gould agree on 653.
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Keep their day. Remember them on September 30 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.
Feast: September 30
One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Honorius of…'s story, and a nudge to keep going.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.
From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.
