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law barbarians, attache the town o Batavis, a thesaint had foretoid, and while almos ali the inhabitants were occupied in the harvest, putrio dealli ortymenii the town Who had remalaed ior a guard Thepties Who ad spolien sacrilegious ord in thebaptister against the servantii Christiue tor refugeto the fame place, and was flain by the pursuri barbarians For in vain id the offender against Godandinem o truth see protection in the place Where he had so impudenti tranSgreSSed.
ON ,hile alat Severinus,as reading the Gospei in the monaster at avianis, aiter offering rayer hearose, ordered a stario be instanti prepared ior him, an sal to the astonished bystanders, Blesse beth nam o the Lord; e must gori meet the relicso the ainte martyrs. V They crosse the Danube without delay, and ound a man sitiing on the artherbank of the river, ho besought them it many prayers to conductaim to the servanti God whoseime wa widespread, and to whom he had long wishedio come The servantis Christ a potate out toking of the Suevi, a principes leade in a war, notae remote in time, thalaad devastate Central Europe oraears. We may inser iromethe smaliues of the torce unde the command oi Hunimund that in attachini ouo Was made alter the destructive overthrow of the Suevi by the Strogoths perhaps in 74 o 475.rae sequence of Eugippius' narrative potnis to the fame date.
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his an immediatet an a a suppliant he fieredhim the relicsti ain Jolin the Baptist, hich he had hept by him ior a long time. The servant i God received the relics illi the Veneratio the deserved; and so the blessing oi Salat John was bestowed unaskedupon the church, as he had foretoid, and Severinus consecrate the relics by the hand of the priesis.
THERE was a town calle Joriaco, twent miles and more distant rom Batavis. Thither the manii God, impressed a usuali a revelation, Sent a Singerii hechurch, oderatus by name admonishing that allthe inhabitants hould qui that place Without delay. For imminent destruction threatene them ii thende-spised his commands. Some ere in doubi Ver Sogreat a Presage, hile ther did not belleverit at all. Thereiore et again hementisne uni them, a certain
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teast learing the comer bellind through the compassioni hemen might escape. The servantis Godses that he was in great sorro ove him, test haplyhe might postpone obedience to the Sarin command, and o be exposed to the threatening destruction. Accordingly the messenge of the an imo went
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Paulinus the bishop, and in ali haste returne home. Accordingi Paulinus, prepared by the content of theletter, roteo ali the casties o his diocese, and strongi admonishe them to meet the coming -Schiei and disasteri a three days iast, a the letterii in manis God had indicated. The obeyed these
himseli a the iee o the saint, imploring that he beno compelle to go home again destring that hemight escape rom the lepros o si as he had romthat o the fiesh, and might close his lite in the fame
place it a pratseworthy end. The man o Godgreatly admire his plous pumose, and with atherly command instructed a te monks to practis irequent
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iasis illi his an to continue in uninterrupted Prayer in orde that the or might grant to his thos things hic mere meet Fortisied by soareat remedies, Mihin the pace o tW monilis the manwas reed rom the etters o mortal lite.
A the fame time the inhabitant O the own i Quintanis, exhausted by the incessant incursions of the Alamanni, lei their W abodes an remove to thelown o Batavis. ut thei placem refuge di notremat hidden iro the Alamanni: hereiore thebarbarian were the more inflamed belleving that theymight pillage theseoples o tW town in ne attach. But Sari Severinus applied imseli vigorousi toprayer, and encouraged the Romans in mantiold ways by example o salvation. e foretoid that the present oes hould indeed by God's id e vercome but that iter the victor those ho despised his admonitions hould peristi Thereiore the Romans in a body, strengthened by the predictioni the aint. an in the ope o the promise victory, re VP against the Alamanni in orderii batile tortifie lesswit materia arm than by the prayers of the alat. The Alamanni ere overthrown in the confici and fled. The man o God addresse the victor asiollows Children domo attribute the glor o the
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i it the vie o Severinus may be contraste that o Sarit Ambrose Epistolae, xviii, o P deam esse victoriam crediderunt paganil, quae utique munuSAESt, non poteStaS: donatur, non dominatur, legionum gratia, non religionum potentia'; the have be-lieve Victor tot a goddess, hic is in truth a giit, not a poWer; is besto ed, and does notaule; comes by the aidii legions, no by the wer os religion. - There is some measure os justice in the comment hic Palisannmahes pon the conductis Severinus in his instance. Mith his Word o discouragement Severinus divide the strengthisi the citi- gens Through his disheartening vie of things, heirought a partos them to despair, without helping in the least themthers ho did not
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a licior the ake o receiving the benediction. Nodoub the presence of this fluid a costly ood, wessed
join him; ather, eakening them. So was the strengthii the brave citigens o Passa paralyged. V Die Geschichte de Votherisa=iderung, ii, P. 397. It ould not ho ever, he falario mahe this citation rom Palimam ithout quotin algo the passage ibid. 00 4 d. in Whichhe sum his opinionis the sain and his public activities. Hi is a Strange nobie, 9ΟWersu figure, his monk. . . . A politica head would certa ly have acted whollyminerwis than Severinus. e dono know hether he would have had belle success. et it Was apiec o good ortune, that in the disasimus time alter the deat oi Aetius, hen on very fide in dissolutio of the Empire, lihe thedeat,oici humaniody, Washminningat the extremities, and thes Vince one by one ere renouncing thela connection it Italy When We se Gaul independent unde Aegidius, Dalmatia unde Marcellinus that in Noricum, ii no genera arose, et a leas a Dure and loit spirit foughtrio do the work of righteousneSS. V
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A the fame timemaximus o Noricum, o whom eliave made mention above, hindled by the wa thii his alth, at idwinter, hen the oad os that regionare closed by the numbin Cold hastene to comerio
At in earlier date Noricum,as celebrated or iis expori trade in cloth g. Expositio totius Mundi et Gentium 57. The triendlines to the righteous of beast usualty Wild and savageis a common eature in early Christia narratives. Se in index toHeriberi Rosweyde's Vitae Patrum ad ed. Antuemiae, I 628). hereare instances o lion servin as guide in RoSweyde, 90 23 a 8164; and of a Mid am in the fame ca9acity, P. 229 a.
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vi citigens o the town o Lauriacum and the iugitives rom therapper casile appo ted Scout to explore the suspected places, and marde againSt the enemy, sociar a b human care the could. The SerVantii God instructed by divine inspiration arranged beiore-hand wit prophetic in that the should bring