Commemoration
Saint Severus, Presbyter
June 27 Old CalendarJuly 10 New Calendar
Life
He lived in central Italy. A man of unusual holiness. He was once called to confess and commune a dying man, but he was delayed working in the vineyard. Meanwhile word came to him that the sick man had died. Greatly frightened, as though he were the murderer of that man, he began to weep bitterly over the dead man. And by his fervent prayer God restored the dead man to life. Then Severus confessed and communed him and prepared him for a Christian departure from this world. On the eighth day the man died again.
From the Prologue from Ochrid by St. Nikolai Velimirovich, June 27. Translated by Marcian Sakarya, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Also commemorated on June 27
The full reading for June 27 includes the hymn of praise, a reflection, a contemplation and a homily.
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