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Severus of Vienne

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'''Saint Severus of Vienne''' (died c. 455) was a priest who evangelised in [[Vienne, Isère|Vienne]], [[France]]. He is venerated as a Catholic saint.<ref>{{cite web |title=Saint Severus of Vienne |url=https://catholicsaints.info/saint-severus-of-vienne/ |website=CatholicSaints.Info |access-date=2 September 2021 |date=7 August 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Abbey |first1=Saint Augustine's |last2=Press |first2=Aeterna |title=The Book of Saints |date=1966 |publisher=Aeterna Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hpfmCgAAQBAJ |access-date=2 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kurikilamkatt |first1=James |title=First Voyage of the Apostle Thomas to India: Ancient Christianity in Bharuch and Taxila |date=31 December 2005 |publisher=ISD LLC |isbn=978-1-925612-63-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7U7VDwAAQBAJ |access-date=2 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref group=Note>In principle, those recognised as saints prior to 1050 are common to the Catholic and Orthodox churches, so Severus of Vienne is an Orthodox saint too.</ref> Severus is said to have been [[India]]n by birth<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Raisharma |first1=Sukanya |title=Much Ado about Vienne? A Localizing Universal Chronicon |journal=Historiography and Identity III: Carolingian Approaches |series=Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages |date=January 2021 |volume=29 |pages=271–290 |doi=10.1484/m.celama-eb.5.120167 |url=https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/pdf/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.5.120167 |access-date=2 September 2021 |publisher=Brepols Publishers |isbn=978-2-503-58655-7 |s2cid=234198159 |language=en}}</ref> and of wealthy origins. His entry in the [[Roman Martyrology]] reads:<ref>{{cite book |title=The Roman Martyrology|date=1916 |publisher=Baltimore : John Murphy |url=https://archive.org/details/romanmartyrology00cathuoft |access-date=2 September 2021}}</ref> {{blockquote|'' 'At Vienne, in France, St. Severus, priest and confessor, who undertook a painful journey from India in order to preach the Gospel in that city, and converted a great number of Pagans to the faith of Christ by his labors and miracles.' ''}}

Severus settled in Vienne around 430.<ref>{{cite web |title=Saint Séver |url=https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/12104/Saint-Sever.html |website=nominis.cef.fr |access-date=22 September 2021}}</ref> He founded a church in honour of [[St. Alban]] (now the church of [[Saint-Alban-du-Rhône]]) near Vienne.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Thursday, 21st January, 1915 |journal=Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London |date=June 1915 |volume=27 |pages=54–67 |doi=10.1017/S0950797300013512 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.105911/page/n79/mode/2up |access-date=2 November 2021}}</ref> He died in [[Italy]], but his body was brought back to Vienne and buried in the church dedicated to the protomartyr [[St. Stephen]], which he himself had constructed.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thomas |first1=P. |title=Christians and Christianity in India and Pakistan: A General Survey of the Progress of Christianity in India from Apostolic Times to the Present Day |date=17 December 2020 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-000-22821-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8GsJEAAAQBAJ |access-date=2 September 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

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==Further reading==
* {{cite book |last1=Lucas |first1=Gérard |title=Anonyme, Vita Seueri |url=https://books.openedition.org/momeditions/1063?lang=en |website=Vienne dans les textes grecs et latins : Chroniques littéraires sur l'histoire de la cité, des Allobroges à la fin du Ve siècle de notre ère |series=Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée |publisher=MOM Éditions |access-date=4 September 2021 |pages=283–287 |language=fr |date=18 December 2018|isbn=9782356681850 }}
* {{cite journal |title=Vita Sancti Severi Viennensis presbyteri et confessoris |journal=Analecta Bollandiana |date=1 January 1886 |volume=5 |pages=416–424 |doi=10.1484/J.ABOL.4.02099 |url=https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.ABOL.4.02099?mobileUi=0 |access-date=4 September 2021 |issn=0003-2468}}

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[[Category:French Roman Catholic saints]]
[[Category:French people of Indian descent]]
[[Category:Indian Christian saints]]
[[Category:5th-century Christian saints]]

== Submission of Severus of Vienne ==

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Severus of Vienne

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