Severinus of Noricum

Saint Severinus of Noricum was a monk who came from the East and enlightened the province of Noricum Ripense, in present-⁠day Austria, and he reposed in 482. He is also called the Apostle of Austria and Bavaria.

He founded several monasteries, among them one on the Danube near Vienna, where he organised help for those struck by the invasions of Attila's Huns and where he reposed. The people of the region regarded him as their protector in the time of those upheavals.

Six years after his repose the monks were driven out of Noricum and took the Saint's relics to Naples in Italy, where the monastery of San Severino was built to shelter them. He is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 8 January (new style).