The Life of Saint Severinus

Sampling of the 46 TABLE OF CHAPTERS

I. How in the beginning Saint Severinus won fame
in the town which is called Asturis, by wholesome
exhortation to good works and by most veracious
prophecy.

II. Of the town Comagenis, which he miraculously
freed from the enemy.

III. How through his prayer God came to the aid
of the inhabitants of the little city Favianis, who had
long suffered from famine.

IV. Of the barbarian robbers, who lost their booty
which they had taken without the walls of Favianis,
and all their weapons too; or, Of his mode of life and
surpassing humility.

V. In how great reverence he was held by the king
of the Rugii, Flaccitheus; or, How Flaccitheus was
delivered from the ambushes of the foe by the oracle.

VI. Of the Rugian widow's only son, who suffered
tortures of pain for twelve years, and was healed
through the prayer of the man of God.

VII. How the youth Odoacer, clad in wretched
hides, was told by him of his kingship that was to
come.

VIII. That Feletheus, sometimes called Feva, king
of the Rugii, son of Flaccitheus, mentioned above, for
fear of Saint Severinus forbade his wicked wife to
rebaptize Catholics; or, What danger she ran of losing
her little son Fredericus one day when she had spurned
the saint's intercession for certain persons.

IX. Of the bearer of the remains of Saint Gervasius
and Saint Protasius the martyrs, made known by the
marvelous revelation of the man of God; or. With
what reply he refused the honorable office of bishop
when he was asked to accept it.

X. Of a janitor who was one day forbidden to go out
anywhere, then was taken by the barbarians, and
humbly restored by them.

XI Of the miracle which was wrought in the
castle of Cucullis, where the tapers were lighted by
divine power, and the sacrilegious, who had at first
concealed themselves, were manifested and amended.

XII How the locusts were expelled from the terri-
tory of the castle of Cucullis, after God had been pro-
pitiated by fasting and prayer and almsgivings; while
the patch of corn of a certain poor man, an unbelieving
scorner, was swept bare.

XIII. How the taper was lighted in the hand of
the man of God as he prayed, when the fire required
by custom for the evening service of praise was not
found.

XIV. Of the wondrous healing of the woman
whose life was despaired of; who, after a terrible and
long continued sickness, was so fully restored to health
by the prayer of the man of God that on the third day
she sturdily betook herself to labor in the fields.

XV. How upon the posts sustaining the river side
of the church, which the water at flood often more than
covered, the servant of God, praying, cut with an axe
the sign of the cross; and how thereafter the water
never rose above the cross.