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Bonitus was born in Auvergne, France and became chancellor to Sigebert III.
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Foreign other people of this name, see Bonitus (disambiguation). The king of Austrasia. And by his zeal, religion, and justice, flourished in that kingdom under four kings.
After the death of Dagobert World War II Thierry III. bishop of Clermont, in Auvergne, having recommended him for his successor, died in 689, and Bonitus was consecrated.
He was known to have a great devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and is said to have experienced an apparition of her. Two years later, after having governed that see ten years, he had a scruple whether his election had been perfectly canonical.
And having consulted Saint Tilo, or Theau, then leading an eremitical life at Solignas, resigned his dignity. He retired for four years to the abbey of Manlieu, and after having made a pilgrimage to Rome, died of the gout at Lyons on the fifteenth of January in 710, being eighty-six years old.
