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Saint

Severus

Priest

A priest of the Abruzzi in Italy, reposed around 530.

Feast
February 15old style February 28
Reposed
5306th century

Life

Holy Severus was a priest in the Abruzzi in Italy and reposed around 530. Saint Gregory the Great relates that he brought a dead man back to life so that he could receive communion and holy unction.

No other details of his life are preserved in the sources at hand. He is commemorated on 15 February, by the Western calendar (new style), as a saint of the undivided Church.

Commemorated the same day February 15