St. Severus

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

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November 6 · Bishop, Martyr

St. Severus

St. Severus

Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Traditional feast

November 6
1914 / pre-1969 calendar, per Baring-Gould (1897)

Current feast

November 6
Secondary source · Wikipedia

Represents

Bishop
Martyr

Early life

The book says little or nothing about early life. This is how the account begins.

Thin entry · the 1897 book gives only 0 words. We have not filled the gap with invented detail.

What they represent

How they teach us to live

Drawn from themes in the original account

Learn from the kind of life it was. Faithfulness to Christ when it cost everything.

Keep their day. Remember them on November 6 with a short prayer, and ask for their help.

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Read Baring-Gould’s full account

Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman and Spanish Martyrologics.] Sbverus, bishop of Barcelona, is mentioned in the 6th Epistle of Sisebut, the Visigoth King in Spain, to Eusebius of Tarascona. He was put to death by the Arian Goths, by driving a nail into his temples.

Feast days

Feast: November 6

Nine days · Free

Pray the novena
with us.

One short email a day for nine days. The day's prayer, a line from St. Severus's story, and a nudge to keep going.

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Sources & notes

Feast-day sources

Sources

Credits

Image: Barcelona Cathedral Interior - Severus of Barcelona by Bartolomé Ordóñez 1519.jpg · Didier Descouens · Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain.

Image: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

From Sabine Baring-Gould, The Lives of the Saints, new edition in 16 vols. (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897–98); text from the Internet Archive scan (OCR, lightly cleaned; errors possible). Public domain in the United States. Reproduced unedited, except for short bracketed notes in grey that we added to explain names and terms (“S.” is the old abbreviation for Saint). Some history and judgments reflect 19th-century scholarship.