Re the Saint of the day, the following turned up for 23 October:
* Severinus / Seurin, bishop of Bordeaux (c. 420)
- a voice and miracle indicated that he should become bishop of
Cologne, and he did; same thing happened with Bordeaux, when
he died, pope Leo XIII in 1883 confirmed his cult in Pavia and the
church of Santa Maria in Portico in Rome
Isn't there some confusion here between this bishop, and our old friend
Anicius Manlius Severinus Torquatus Boethius (480-524), who was never
formally canonised after his execution by King Theoderic the Great? He has
a rather splendid tomb in the crypt of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro in Pavia
(right underneath the Shrine of St Augustine!), as this city is where he
was put to death, and it is his cult (as Saint Severinus) which was
recognised in 1883, only for the diocese of Pavia. A few years ago the
brick tower where by local repute he had been imprisoned (though I think it
was probably a rather later structure) fell down--ironically while it was
in the process of supposedly being restored! I think if people want to look
back in the archives of medieval-religion, they may find some remarks I
made about this and other Boethian matters on a previous occasion.
I duly observed his feast on the day, having visited his shrine years ago,
as I have a particular affection for the old fellow and have been
collecting stuff by and about him for a long time!
Cheers,
Brian Donaghey
Brian Donaghey - Dept of English Language & Linguistics, University of
Sheffield - Tel. 0114 22 20213
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sedem requiro, in qua non libros, sed id quod libris pretium facit,
librorum quondam meorum sententias, collocavi.--Boethius I pr.5
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