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Severinus of Agaunus healing Clovis as depicted in a twelfth-century fresco from the crypt of the now demolished church of the abbaye de St.-Séverin at Château-Landon (Seine-et-Marne):
http://fr.topic-topos.com/vie-de-saint-severin-chateau-landon
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John Dillon
On 02/11/15, Matt Heintzelman wrote:
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> ST. SEVERINUS, of a noble family in Burgundy, was educated in the Catholic faith, at a time when the ,Arian heresy reigned in that country. He forsook the world in his youth, and dedicated himself to God in the monastery of Agaunum, which then only consisted of scattered cells, till the Catholic King Sigismund built there the great abbey of St. Maurice. St. Severinus was the holy abbot of that place, and had governed his community many years in the exercise of penance and charity, when, in 504, Clovis, the first Christian king of France, lying ill of a fever, which his physicians had for two years ineffectually endeavored to remove, sent his chamberlain to conduct the Saint to court; for it was said that the sick from all parts recovered their health by his prayers. St. Severinus took leave of his monks, telling them he should never see them more in this world. On his journey he healed Eulalins, Bishop of Nevers, who had been for some time deaf and dumb ; also a. leper, at the gates of Paris ; and coming to the palace he immediately restored the king to perfect health, by putting on him his own cloak. (https://books.google.com/books?id=tOFDAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA111&ots=URISENpBO7&dq=severinus+abbot+%22february+11%22&pg=PA111#v=onepage&q=severinus%20abbot%20%22february%2011%22&f=false)
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