The life of Saint Severinus

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speaheth unt him, hall, as the Lord that hedeigito grant thee stili in this lite torus, his servant.ΘVBut he salth By the Lord I adjure thee, let me not beheld here longer, and cheatedii the evertastingaest in the possession o whiches have see myseli. V Andimmediately, he he had spoken the dead man was

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No only did the gracemi Christisahe alat Severinus ricli in such gitis, but also rom his innate goodnes heloo S great care o captives and the need that almost ali the poor through at the owns an casties

The gratitude of the catechumen recallessito sise by ain Martinwas greater in proportio as his reception in the othe worid had been disserent. Sulpicius Severus, De Beati Martini ita vii, 4-6. An engraring hic represent this scene is mentione in the Pre- iace. There is another in I. H. Von Falchenstein's Antiquitates et Memorabilia Nor aviae Veteris Schwabach, 734-43), i, ab Uii, opposite p. 2oa. The lalter isti special interest in that it portraysthe tW doorkeepers, or aestors, in militar costume, ne i themleaning uponinauge batile-aXe.

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i aut lard Histoire de la DIme Ecclesiastique Dijon, I9o93 gives an excellent account of the originti tithing in the early church, andalso pp. 44 i. 40 discusse this passage a tength. Some of his conclusions may be briefl state a tollows. The ni references Otithes in the Go eis MattheW, xxiii 23 Licte, i, 42; viii Ia arein rebuhemi in hypocris of the Pharisees. The Christians o the Mst four centuries di not recognige thedewis tithe. The di insome instances achnowledg the tax of the sirs fruits. Insistenceum the titheaegins to appea about the end of the ourth century. In the East, it champion was ain John Chrysostom In Matthaei mHomilia laeis laev), in Migne's Patrologia Graeca, tviii, col. Is). nthe est, it was advocate in twO forms. Jerome Explanatio in uesachiam, iii, , in Migne'SPatrologia Latina, XXV, Coll. 568-I57I; an Epistola ad Nepotianum de Vita Clericorum et Sacerdotum, in Migne, xxii, col. 53I consider that the ancient lawris stili in force, and that the proceed o the tith shouldie so the supportii in clero. Augustine lihewise Sermones, laxxv, 4, inmigne, XXXviii, col. 22)holds to the obligationis the tithe, at least upo the conscience, Sing the lex Matthew V, o excepi our righteousnes Ahali exceed therighteousnes of the scribes an Pharisees V buti direct it to the supportis the mor. The later developmentii churchiolity finalty crystallige into definite enacimenta at the secon coincit of Maconin 58s, was a comPro se belWeen these two te s. Severinus, on the

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quantit os lothin to e distributed he asked the

os God signified that the should not come, and fore- tol that the offering hicli the had delayed must bemade to the barbarians ACcordingly, no long alter the citigens of Tiburnia were beleaguered by the Gottis, and ought them With varying ortune and unde theother hand tollorus aint Augustine. Probably, V says M. Viard, te di no spea of the tithe in the exac sense of the word hewished meret to caliciori the charitable iit os the communities that he evangeliged. It is very probabi that the ain thought indoing this to revive the ancient tithe, modisyiniit, hoWeUer, accord- in to the need o the moment an his persona disinterestedneSS. The biographer has exaggerate this thought of his hero in orde tomahe it appea an actuality. V Here, as elseWhere hen he se the wor Without a modisier, Euippius means Noricum editerraneum, the interior Or outhernprovince, o whicli Tiburnia a the chi et to n. Teumia in inscriptions No Sanct Peter immolκ nea Spitat.

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The siege o Tiburnia may welli assigned to the ear 473. See Chapter V note. It is then probabi that the surrenderis the collectioni Clothin was an important though hardina decisive factor in restoring eace etween the Citigens and the rame Goths; ho, accordin to Jordanes De Rebus Geticis 36), entere um the cam-paigniecause ood and clothing were heginninito ad them. inuentibus se deinde hinc inde vicinarum gentium spoliis, coepit et Gothis victus vestitusque deesse et hominibus, quibus dudum bella alimoniam Draestitissent, Pax CoePit Sse Contraria; omnesque Cum clamore magno ad regem Theodemir accedentes Gothi Orant, quacumque arte vellet ductaret exercitum. V The hie town o Riverside Noricum o Ens, O the smali Place Lorch, ear Ens authorities disser. At the time of the Notitia Dignitatum Lauriacum a detendedi a strong garrisonii soldiers, unde the praeferarι legionis secundae, and by a quadron os the Danube lotilla.

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Caesar Baronius supposes that this hapter an passages in Sidonius Apollinaris Epistolae vi 12 and Gregorymi Nurs Historia Francorum, i, 24 relate to a genera tamine, hich, he helleves, amicted the norther provinces in 75. Quae Gallias vexavit diratames, aeque affixit Raetios, Noricos, et alios Boreales populos his

finitimos. V Annales Ecclesiastici, a. 475 Secis 3 35. There Seem,

however no sufficient reason sordinking the deart at Lauriacum Minthat in Gaul, in the winter os 474-75, o whic Sidonius and Gregory eis. The lalter,as caused, no by the favit O the season, but by the depredations of the Visigoths.

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account of the constant incursion o the Alamanni, whoseling, Gibuldus, greatly honored and loved him. Nomis a certain occasio Gibuldus came agerlyto se his That the ring micti no encumber Bata n by his visit, the saint,ent outri mee him, and addresse the in With so great si ness, that Gibuldus hem to tremble violently beiore im, and declare to his armies, ache withdre , that never in War o in an peril, ha he been mitten it suchirembling. And wheni gave to the servanti God his choice, to rive hat command he would the mostpious eacher asked that the king shouldia attentionratheroo his own est interesis, restrat his nationiro layin waste in Roma territory, and Set me Without ranso the captives his tollowers had made. Then the ring appotated that Severinus hould directgome ne iro his own tollowers o bring this ork more speedit to completion. Forthmith Deacon Amantius a dispalched, and tollowed in the tang'spath; ut though he walchedieiore his gales many

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errandariefly gave letters to the ring an receivedother iro his, an returne home. e conVeyed bach about sevent captiVeS, an moreoVe brought the pleasin promise of the hing that he he had diligenti searche through the procince, he ouldsend bach ali the captives that were tole ound there. Later aint Lucilius the riest a selecteda atten to this matter, an recoVered rom captivit agreat numberii uniortunates.

Saint Augustine De Cisitate Dei, viii 18 telis of the com called Retica anno=m, sent iro Italycio the suppino the oldier in ae-tia: dicebat . . . narrasse quae passus est Caballum Se Scilicet iactum annonam inter alia jumenta baiulasse militibus, quae dicitur Retica, quoniam ad Retias deportatur. V The cohors nova Batavorum, accordin to the olitia Dignitatum. The to a that is, was a militata station, and too iis nam irom the

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It would indeedie an eviden emi an extensive iame, ere,e ableto acceptir. Hodghin's ingenious conoeci erus to the so cem thepenultimate nam o the celebrate philosopher an me Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, ho wasior at Rome probabi during the eighth decade o the fifth centuta Ital an her Invaders, iii 1885), P. an or ad ed. 1806, 9 47 I) Severinus a no doubigive to him in honour of one of the holiest names of the fifth century, the sat nil hermitti Noricum. U

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Probabi Hunimund Ling of the Suevi, hos rat int Dalmatia an hostilities it the Ostrogoth are describe by Iordanes, De Rebus Geticis 33-53. Eduar von teterghelm, incleed, in his schichie de Volhemanderetιnc ad ed. Lei9Sic, 88 8 Ι), ii, P. 324, expresses the belles that the coincidence in nam is purei accidental. But ii the Hunimund of Eugippius asino Hunimund the Suevianking, ho was hes Eugippius through his hole or is persectly definite in his identificationi persons. Hemames in ali some fiftycharacterS, Side rom thos mentione in the Biblem in the churchsathers. Each is caretuli labesse Wit the appropriate or orDhrase, except two Stilicho Chapter XXXVI and Hunimund Itis a Iair inference that Eugippius ei these ames unqualified

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