Honore of Amiens

Saint Honore (death on May 16th, Ca 600) is the owner of the Boulanger S and the Pâtissier S: when this dissipated young man announced with his nurse that he wanted to become priest, it was making cook its bread. " And when my shovel has sheets, you will be bishop! " the decent sort made fun. Under its amazed eyes, the shovel started to reverdir. In remembering this miracle, in 1202, a Parisian baker offered 9 arpents of ground to build a vault with Honore saint who became thus patron saint of the Boulanger S. He is celebrated the May 16th at much of bakers through all France: it is the Festival of the Bread. The occasion to once celebrate the year on the place of the harvests, with the mill and the bakehouse, the work of cereal, the millers and the bakers who maintain the tradition of the good French bread.

As of his young age, the child testified to pious provisions: the prayers and the fast made its delights. One gave him for holy Master Béat, bishop of Amiens. With died of his/her spiritual father, occurred towards 554, the people and the clergy, built by his zeal and its virtues, indicated it to succeed to him. As he refused this honor, a celestial ray and a mysterious oil went down on its head, signs divine will. It was thus miraculeusement devoted.

The life of Honore saint was simple, of rigors and torments. The miracles which testified to the capacity of the eighth bishop of Amiens are impressed of a very human poetry: null trace of this marvellous terrible or suave which illuminates the accounts of the Golden Legend in which for this reason undoubtedly Jacques de Votagine did not give place to this Saint who was perhaps happy!

However, the worship of Honore saint is bound, in all France, with the symbol even of our food, this food which Christ found worthy to appear in the prayer that he taught us:

My Father which are in the skies. Give us today our bread of each jour.

Saint Honore, owner of the millers, the merchants of flour, the bakers and all those whose work ensures the essence of our subsistence, is the Saint whose protection is to us more nectarifère, because he is not man who does not repeat with anguish the old proverb: " Never/If it comes tomorrow reports/ratios from the pain".

Honore was born at the village from Port-the-Large, in Ponthieu, at the beginning of the Life century. Its family, according to the Bollandistes, was one of the first of the country. The legend reports that at this time even, its nurse was occupied cooking the bread in the bakehouse of the paternal castle. With the account of this wonder, surprised and incrédule, the old woman exclaimed, of manner of challenge, which she would believe in these foolish words if the van which she had just thrown on the ground took root. In the moment, it was transformed into a mulberry tree which covered foliage and flowers. This is why the florists put themselves under the protection of Honore Saint, while in memory of this miracle, associated with the preparation of the bread, the bakers chose it for owner.

Lupicin, priest of the diocese of Amiens, accepted one day the revelation of the place where the martyrs Firmin, Victoric and Gentien were buried, were died in year 303. It dug the ground and discovered their bodies. In its joy, it entonna an anthem of joy whose accents reached Honore who was with more than two miles from there. The bishop, accompanied by the clergy and a big competition the faithful ones, arrived soon and proceeded to the Invention of the relics.

One Easter Sunday, as Honore celebrated the Mass with Saint-Acheul, he saw appearing, in a luminous cloud, the hand of the Christ who, seizing the host, the communia, thus renewing, grace granted, at the time of Cène, with the apostles. The armorial bearings of the abbey of Saint-Acheul carry a hand in remembering this miracle.

Saint Honore évangélisa of the regions where the Christian faith was still badly known and it obtained innumerable conversions. During one of its pastoral visitations, he died in Port-the-Large. It was the May 16th 600. It was buried in its native village; its body was placed under the high altar of a church built soon in its honor.

The relics of Honore saint remained instead of his death until the invasion of the Danes and the Norman ones. To preserve them of any profanation, they, at that time, were led to Amiens. This translation was marked by a new miracle: the body had been deposited in the church Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul. When it was removed, to carry it to the cathedral, the Crucifix, which dominated jubé, leant to greet the skin of the Saint bishop and lengthily accompanied it by the glance. This Christ, with the inclined head, known under the name of Saint still Saves, sees herself in the cathedral of Amiens whose gate southernmost, known as of the Gilded Virgin, partly, is devoted to Honore saint.

About in all France, the bakers and Pâtissier S took for holy owner Honore and celebrate it the May 16th. One gave his name to a pastry making, the Saint-Honore.

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