1 (1) At the time when Attila, king of the Huns, had died, the two Pannonias and the other districts bordering on the Danube were in a state of utter confusion. It was then that the most holy servant of God, Severin, who had come from the eastern parts to the borderland of Noricum Ripense and the Pannonias, stayed in a small town called Asturis. [...] (2) Whilst, strenghtened by such practice, he strove in innocence for the heavenly palm, one day, as he was used to do, he went to the church. He asked the presbyters, the clergy, and the layfolk to be called together, and then, in all the humbleness of his mind, foretold them how, with prayer, fasting, and fruits of mercy, they might prevent the imminent attack of the enemy. But they, proud as they were and defiled by the desires of the flesh, judged the warnings of the prophet by the standard of their unbelief. (3) The servant of God, however, returned to his abode, where he had found hospitality with the sacristan of the church; he revealed the day and hour of the impending disaster and said: "I hasten to leave a stubborn city which will soon perish". [...]
Severinus goes to the city of Comagenis and advises people there to repent. Soon, a nobleman from Asturis arrives to Comagenis with news that his city was utterly destroyed by barbarians as had been foretold by Severinus.
(trans. L. Bieler 1965: 57-58)
