Posted on 02/27/2024 10:31:37 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
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.)...
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Rollo the Viking likes hot French women. That’s why he invaded Normandy in the first place. Saint Honoria’s belongings had to be protected
I think by “relics” the article refers to Saint Honorina’s bones rather than her belongings. I could be wrong.
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