Statue de Sainte Honorine, église de Corbeil-Cerf
Sainte Honorine
Vénérée dans les évêchés
de Bayeux et de Rouen (4ème s.)
On ne connaît d'elle que
les reliques qui furent rapportées de Haute-Normandie jusqu'en Ile-de-France à
Conflans-Saint-Honorine. Son culte en Normandie est très ancien et la tradition
en fait une martyre gauloise.
Des internautes nous
signalent
- la tradition
rapporte qu'elle fut martyrisée en l'an 303 lors de la dernière persécution
romaine. Sainte Honorine est également patronne des prisonniers.
- Honorine était
originaire de la tribu gauloise des Calètes (actuellement pays de Caux). Vers
303, elle fut martyrisée par les Romains à Lillebonne et son corps jeté dans la
Seine proche.
Son corps fut recueilli à
Graville (actuel quartier du Havre) et y fut enterré.
Pour échapper aux
invasions normandes, son corps est amené à Conflans (confluent de la Seine et
de l'Oise).
Le 27 février est la date
actuellement retenue pour les cérémonies et processions et ce, depuis l'an
1080.
Site
de la paroisse de Conflans-Sainte-Honorine où Vêpres et vénération des
reliques sont organisés tous les ans pour sa fête.
Sur le territoire de
Rouen, au IVe siècle, sainte Honorine, vierge et martyre.
Martyrologe romain
"Sainte Honorine,
l’espérance des captifs et des matelots, obtenez-nous la délivrance de nos
périls et de nos maux" (cantique composé vers 1875)
SOURCE : http://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/711/Sainte-Honorine.html
Statue de sainte Honorine, plâtre moulée, 1866. Conflans-Sainte-Honorine (78), église Saint-Maclou
Sainte Honorine,
vierge, martyre gauloise (+ 303)
On ne connaît d'elle que
les reliques qui furent rapportées de Haute-Normandie jusqu'en Ile-de-France à
Conflans-Saint-Honorine. Son culte en Normandie est très ancien et la tradition
en fait une martyre gauloise.
- la tradition rapporte
qu'elle fut martyrisée en l'an 303 lors de la dernière persécution romaine.
Sainte Honorine est également patronne des prisonniers.
- Honorine était
originaire de la tribu
gauloise des Calètes (actuellement pays de Caux). Vers 303, elle fut
martyrisée par les Romains à Lillebonne et son corps jeté dans la Seine proche.
Son corps fut recueilli à
Graville (actuel quartier du Havre) et y fut enterré.
Pour échapper aux invasions
normandes, son corps est transporté par des religieux jusqu'au castrum de
Conflans près du confluent de la Seine et de l'Oise, en 876. Elles y restèrent
la paix revenue. Un pèlerinage régional, le jour de l'Ascension, se développa
sous l'impulsion des moines du prieuré de Conflans, dépendant de l'abbaye
Notre-Dame du Bec, installés depuis 1080. De nos jours, ce pèlerinage a
lieu le dimanche précédant ou suivant le 27 février.
Le 27 février est la date
actuellement retenue pour les cérémonies et processions et ce, depuis l'an
1080. Voir le site de
la paroisse de Conflans-Sainte-Honorine où Vêpres et vénération des reliques
sont organisés tous les ans pour sa fête.
Certains auteurs
localisent Honorine dans le pays d'Auge (diocèse de Bayeux) comme en témoignent
les nombreux villages qui portent son nom. D'autres la situent dans le pays de
Caux : c'est à Graville que se trouve son tombeau.
Sainte Honorine aurait
fait partie du peuple gaulois des Calètes et
aurait été martyrisée à Lillebonne (Juliobonna).
Son corps jeté dans la Seine aurait été recueilli à Graville où
il fut enterré (début du IVe siècle).
Sur le territoire de
Rouen, au IVe siècle, sainte Honorine, vierge et martyre.
Martyrologe romain
SOURCE : http://christroi.over-blog.com/2016/02/sainte-honorine-vierge-martyre-gauloise-303.html
St Honorina
· Century: 4th
Century
· Patronage: Boatmen,
Sailors, Ships
· Feast
Day: February 27th
St. Honorina is from
France, and is the oldest, most revered virgin martyr in the Normandy area of
France. Not much is really known about her. Tradition from
that area tells us that in the Diocese of Rouen, Honorina was a member of the Calates,
who was martyred during the persecutions of Diocletian. The spot of her
martyrdom is said to have been Melamare, France. Her body was thrown into
the Seine and would have drifted to Graville-Sainte-Honorine, where it was
collected by Christians and buried in a tomb.
Another tradition holds
that she was martyred at Coulonces. Other traditions place Honorina’s
martydom in the Pays d’ Auge, where several villages bear her name. In
876 with the coast threatened by the Normans, the monks guarding her relics moved
them closer to the interior, at the Confluence of the Seine and the Oise,
placing them in the Chapel associated with a fortress. In 1082, the
castle of Conflans was destroyed during a siege. The Monks therefore
decided to build a Church outside of the town walls, dedicated to
Honorina. Her relics were transported solemnly in the presence of the
Bishop of Paris. The town to this day is called
Conflans-Sante-Honorine.
A Confraternity was
founded in her honor in years later, and special indulgences were approved for
those that venerate her. St. Honorina is the Patron Saint of Boatmen,
Sailors, and Ships, since Conflans-Sainte-Honorine became a port of arrival for
the tugs that travel on the rivers and canals of northern France.
Prisoners who were liberated thanks to the intercession of St. Honorina brought
their chains in thanksgiving. There are several French towns that are
named Sainte-Honorine to this day.
Practical Take Away
St. Honorina was from
France and died around 303. Not much is known about her life, but
tradition tells us that she was martyred under the persecution of
Diocletian. Many miracles were reported from Slaves that were freed from
her intercession, and they would bring their chains to her tomb in
thanksgiving. She is the oldest, most revered virgin martyr in the
Normandy area of France. To this day, several towns in France are named
in her honor, Sainte-Honorine.
SOURCE : http://www.newmanconnection.com/faith/saint/st-honorina
Also
known as
Honorine
Onorina
Ondaine
Ontario
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One of the earliest martyrs in Gaul (modern France). Her cultus in Normandy goes back to the beginning of the Church, but her Acts have been lost, and no details are known.
relics transferred
to Conflans-Sainte-Honorine near Paris, France in
the 9th
century to protect them from Norse invaders
relics re-enshrined at
the church of Saint Honorina c.1085
relics accorded
formal recognition in 1250
relics re-enshrined in
the chapel of
Saint-Honorina at the church of Saint-Maclou in 1801
Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-honorina/
L'église
à Sainte Honorine-du-Fay.
February 27 is honored to
be the feast date of Saint
Honorina, patron of boatmen (a field of metaphorical
import to this
site) as well as liberated prisoners (which is more literal import).
She’s a standard issue
we-don’t-know-much-about-her Diocletian martyr, locally revered in Normandy
where she was executed by the pagans and pitched into the Seine. Her
significance in this area led her devotee monks to carry her relics further
inland in 876 to protect them from Viking raiders; this established them at a
town at the confluence of the Seine and Oise rivers, aptly named Conflans.
There the valuable remains remain even
though the piratical Norsemen do not; it’s now Conflans-Sainte-Honorine,
a Paris suburb. (And only one of several
French communes named for her.)
However, her spiritual
import also remained in her original Norman haunts, even if her physical
presence did not — as we discover in Architectural
Antiquities of Normandy.
The church of Grâville [Graville-Sainte-Honrine, now
a quarter of Le
Havre -ed] was dedicated to St. Honorina, a virgin martyr, whose
relics were preserved there in the times anterior to the Norman invasion; but
were then transported to Conflans upon the Marne. Peter
de Natalibus, copious as he is in his Hagiology, has no notice of
Honorina, whose influence was nevertheless most extraordinary in releasing
prisoners from fetters; and whose altars were accordingly hung round with an
abundance of chains and instruments of torture. The author of theNeustria Pia,
who attests many of her miracles of this description, relates, that her
sanctity extended even to the horse which she rode, insomuch, that, when the
body of the beast was thrown, after its death, as carrion to the dogs, they all
refused to touch it; and the monks, in commemoration of the miracle, employed
the skin for a covering to the church door, where it remained till the middle
of the seventeenth century.
Although it was the
Normans that cost this place its native holy bones, they made their amends to
Graville and Honorina alike through doughty William
the Conqueror crony William
Malet de Graville, whose family’s largesse greatly aggrandized the still-extant
abbey.
SOURCE : http://www.executedtoday.com/2018/02/27/feast-day-of-saint-honorina/
Sant' Onorina Martire
Una tradizione conservata
nella diocesi di Rouen, narra che Onorina detta di Normandia, subì il martirio
per mano dei pagani, sotto Diocleziano (243-313) a Mélamare tra Lillebonne e
Harfleur; il suo corpo fu gettato nella Senna e si sarebbe arenato a Graville.
Etimologia: Onorina =
stimata, gloriosa, dal latino
Emblema: Palma
Martirologio Romano: Nel
territorio di Rouen in Francia, santa Onorina, vergine e martire.
Non si hanno molte
notizie, anzi quelle che esistono sono pure incerte. Una prima tradizione
conservata nella diocesi di Rouen, narra che Onorina detta di Normandia, subì
il martirio per mano dei pagani, sotto Diocleziano (243-313) a Mélamare tra
Lillebonne e Harfleur; il suo corpo fu gettato nella Senna e si sarebbe arenato
a Graville, dove venne raccolto dai cristiani e sepolto nella tomba, che
divenne il punto di inizio del suo culto.
Un’altra tradizione la
dice martirizzata a Coulonces, vicino alle due odierne parrocchie a lei
dedicate. Nell’876, sotto la minaccia delle invasioni normanne, i monaci che
custodivano le reliquie della martire, le trasferirono più all’interno, alla
confluenza della Senna con l’Oise, deponendole nella cappella della
fortezza.
Il 21 giugno 1082, dietro
l’assedio di Conflans e distrutto il castello, i monaci decisero di costruire
una chiesa fuori della cinta muraria, dedicata a santa Onorina, le cui reliquie
vi furono trasportate solennemente alla presenza del vescovo di Parigi.
Negli anni 1250, 1619 e
1752 vi furono effettuate altre ricognizioni delle stesse; una Confraternita,
costituitasi in suo onore, ottenne nel 1690 speciali indulgenze.
S. Onorina è patrona dei
marinai battellieri, da quando Conflans è diventato il porto di arrivo dei
rimorchiatori che lavorano sui fiumi e canali francesi e in cui è ancorato il
rimorchiatore-cappella che è la base dei cappellani dei battellieri
francesi.
La festa di s. Onorina si
celebra il 27 febbraio, in almeno sette diocesi francesi fra cui
Versailles.
Onorina è il diminutivo
di Onorata ed ha lo stesso significato, deriva dal latino e significa
“apprezzata, stimata”.
Autore: Antonio
Borrelli
