Severus

Saint Severus lived in central Italy. Once he was called to confess and commune a dying man, but was delayed working in the vineyard. In the meantime he received news that the sick man had died. Full of fear, as if he were the man's murderer, he began to weep over the dead man. According to Christian tradition, at his prayer God raised the dead man. Then Severus confessed him, communed him and prepared him for a Christian death. On the eighth day that man died again. The Serbian Church commemorates him on 27 June by the old calendar (10 July by the new).