The martyrologist Alban Butler wrote in his The lives of the fathers, martyrs, and other principal saints (1821),May 1 – SS.
In digging foundations for a new church, five very ancient tombs were found, which have been the subject of many dissertations, especially whether one is not that of St. Firminus, bishop and confessor, whose relics are enshrined in the cathedral.
According to E. Cobham Brewer in A Dictionary of Miracles: Imitative, Realistic, and Dogmatic (1884), Christ Himself appears to St. Honoré and administers to him the eucharist (sixth century).
St. Honoré, on one occasion, went to St. Acheolus to assist in saying mass in the chapel of the Virgin, when Christ Himself appeared to him visibly, in human form, and administered to him the holy elements with His own bands, "lui accordant ainsi la même grâce qu'il avait faite aux Apôtres, le soir de sa Passion."
In memory of this event, a divine hand is blazoned in the arms of the abbey of St. Acheolus.—Les Petits Hollandistes, vol.