Coming to his sacred burial, the dumb received speech, the blind exulteth to recognize those that walk afar.
Naples, rejoice in thy festal crown! Clap thy hands, keeping the heavenly patron whom the sovereign Author hath bestowed upon thee as thy honor and help.
For his merits, O merciful Creator, grant us glory and pardon, that above the stars we may ever enjoy the light of thy worship.
Let us all resound glory to the Father, let us in suppliance sing glory unto Christ; with whom reigneth the Holy Spirit and Creator.
III. Chronological Table
(Numerals in parentheses refer to chapters of the Life.)
453. Death of Attila. At about this time Severinus comes "from the parts of the East to the marches of Riverside Noricum and the Pannonias" (i).
455,9 Sept. Sabaria is destroyed by an earthquake (2?).
476, 23 Aug. Odoacer is proclaimed ruler of Italy.
28 Aug. The patrician Orestes is "unjustly slain." (Letter to Paschasius).
Autumn or winter? Primenius takes refuge with Severinus (ibid.).
c. 482, 8 Jan. Death of Severinus at his monastery near Favianis (43).
487. Odoacer wages war on the Rugii. Fredericus flees. Feletheus and Giso are removed to Italy (44).
488? Fredericus returns. He is again put to flight, this time by an army which Odoacer sends under his brother Onoülfus. Onoülfus and Count Pierius |126 order the Roman provincials of Riverside Noricum to withdraw to Italy. The body of Severinus is disinterred, and is accompanied by the monks to Mount Feleter, in Italy. The provincials are assigned abodes "through the different districts of Italy" (44).
Fredericus goes to Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, at Novae in Moesia (44).
489. Theodoric, with the authorization of the Emperor Zeno, invades Italy, and defeats Odoacer at the Isonzo (28 Aug.) and at Verona (30 Sept.). Fulfillment of the prophecy of Severinus (32).
492-96. Gelasius is pope. Sometime during his pontificate, the body of Severinus is removed to the Lucullan castle, near Naples, and there placed by Saint Victor, bishop of Naples, in a mausoleum built for it by Barbaria (46).
493, 27 Feb. Peace between Theodoric and Odoacer. 15 Mar. Odoacer is assassinated by Theodoric, who becomes sole ruler of Italy.
511. Eugippius, second abbot of the monastery of Saint Severinus at the Lucullan castle, sends the Life of Severinus to Deacon Paschasius.
526, 30 Aug. Death of Theodoric.
[Footnotes moved to the end and renumbered]
1. There is a very curious bias displayed in some of the omissions. These include the descriptions of the habits and daily life of Severinus (4, 39); the rehabilitation of the repentant husbandman (12); and the exhortation to the monks to lead lives of practical godliness (4,3).
2. A table of the chapters of the Life printed by Baronius may be of service. The first column gives the year of the Annals; the second, the sections, which are found in several of the editions; the third, page references to tom. viii (1751) of the best edition, that of Lucca; the fourth, the chapters of the Life.
454
25-31