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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Saint

Severus of Catania

Hierarch of Catania in Sicily, venerated in the Orthodox calendar.

Feast
March 24old style April 6
Era
unknown
Order
Hierarchs

Life

Holy Hierarch Severus of Catania was bishop of the city, chosen for the see in the year 802. He fell asleep in 811, by other accounts in 814. The sources consulted preserve no biography of him, so no other facts of his episcopate can be given.

The saint is commemorated on 6 April, in the new style; he is not included in the present calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Commemorated the same day March 24