Honoratus

Honoratus (? - 976) known as also Honorat , bishop of Marseilles (948 - 976)
Its family will occupy this évêché without interruption, by a brother, a son or a nephew of the Viscounts reigning, during a hundred and twenty-five years, of 948 with 1073.

Biography

Dice its nomination in 948, Arlulfe of Marseilles, first Viscount of Marseilles, annexed the évêché and gave it to the one its wire, Honorat. Honoratus is named bishop of Marseilles as of the October 7th 948, in an exchange between Theusinde, the archbishop Manassès and the chapter of Arles (Albanès, Ev. from Mars. n° 65).

The bishop, then, returns downtown and endeavors to seize again the goods of its church. II undertakes to reconstitute Saint-Victor, it returns the buildings to him which it left and makes him restore by the counts de Provence the goods usurped formerly by the frank counts. Honorat II begins the rebuilding of the Abbaye of Saint-Victor of Marseilles destroyed by the Sarrasins. This last, relative of the first Viscount of Marseilles and charged with the episcopate with this city in 948, “restores illustrates it Abbaye, there restores the monastic life and gives abbots to the monks that it had introduced there”. It restores “many fields to him which had formerly belonged to this Monastère, and which plain with its were then évêché”. More remarkable thing still, “it claimed with Zèle the restitution of those their goods that private individuals and the Count of Provence itself held wrongfully”. In addition, “it authorized the monastery to seek their old properties and to continue covering of it”. In March 965, with the prayer of Honorat, bishop of Marseilles, the count Boson restores with the Abbaye of Saint-Victor of Marseilles his properties (S.V. 29). In 966, it reintroduced there the monastic life by calling there a congregation of monks Benedictines.

It still appears the October 31st 966 (S.V. 23) and dies the February 6th one year that one believes being 976 (Albanès. Ev. from Mars. 48).

Others

There was also a cynical philosopher answering in the name of Honoratus.

Sources

Raoul Busquet - History of Marseilles , 1948

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