Presbyters Uniwersytet Warszawski
ID
ER 2405
The monk Severinus obtains the relics of Gervasius and Protasius and entrusts them the presbyters of the basilica in his monastery in Favianis (Noricum), between 454-82. Eugippius, Life of Severinus, written in Castellum Lucullanum near Naples in Italy, AD 511.
Severinus asks a man whom he ransomed to go to the market of the barbarians and find there a certain person. The man goes to the market and finds the person described by Severinus. It turns out that he was seeking Severinus because he carries with himself the relics of which he feels himself unworthy.
 
9. (3) Qui debito sanctorum Geruasii et Protasii martyrum reliquias honore suscipiens in basilica, quam in monasterio construxerat, collocauit officio sacerdotum. Quo loco martyrum congregauit sanctuaria plurimorum, quae tamen praeeunte semper reuelatione promeruit, sciens aduersarium saepe subrepere sub nomine sanctitatis.
 
(ed. Régerat 1991: 204, 206)
Severinus asks a man whom he ransomed to go to the market of the barbarians and find there a certain person. The man goes to the market and finds the person described by Severinus. It turns out that he was seeking Severinus because he carries with himself the relics of which he feels himself unworthy.
 
9. (3) Then the messenger of the man of God made himself known to him. St. Severin received with due honor the relics of the holy martyrs, Gervasius and Protasius, and placed them at the disposal of the priests in the basilica which he had built in his monastery. In that place, he united the holy remains of many martyrs; he was always deigned to know about them beforhand by revelation; for he knew that the enemy often creeps in under the name of holiness.
 
(trans. L. Bieler 1965: 68)
 

Place of event:

Region
  • Danubian provinces and Illyricum
City
  • Favianis

About the source:

Author: Eugippius
Title: Life of Severinus, Life of saint Severinus, Vita Severini, Commemoratorium
Origin: Castellum Lucullanum (Italy south of Rome and Sicily)Naples (Italy south of Rome and Sicily),
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian
Eugippius was originally from Noricum, where he was a monk in the monastery founded by Severinus (died 482). He left Noricum in 488 with other monks and the body of Severinus as part of the evacuation to Italy ordered by Odoacer. They settled in Castellum Lucullanum near Naples, a Roman villa offered to them by the noblewoman Barbaria. In 511, Eugippius wrote the "Life of Severinus." He also composed an anthology of excerpts from the works of Augustine, dedicated to the virgin Proba of the powerful Roman family, the gens Anicia, see [2047]. He also maintained relations with the Roman clergy (as evidenced by his familiarity with Paschasius) and with the African clerics exiled by the Vandals.
 
The Life can be safely dated to 511, because in the letter to the deacon Paschasius that accompanies the Life, Eugippius mentions that the year of Inportunus' consulship (509) was two years ago, see [2401] and [2402].
 
Eugippius was still alive in 532 when he corresponded with Ferrandus of Carthage [...].
Edition:
Ph. Régerat (ed.), Eugippe, Vie de saint Séverin, Paris 1991 (Sources Chrétiennes 337)
 
English translation:
Eugippius, Life of St. Severin, trans. L. Bieler, The Fathers of the Church, Washington D.C. 1965

Categories:

Functions within the Church - Monastic presbyter
    Described by a title - Sacerdos/ἱερεύς
      Relation with - Barbarian
        Relation with - Monk/Nun
          Devotion - Veneration of saints and relics
            Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: M. Szada, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER2405, http://presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=2405