Severinus

[ sev-uh-rahy-nuhs ]

noun

1. died a.d. 640, pope 640.

Example Sentences

While George evaded indifferent slaps from the unoccupied paw, Ignatius scrutinized the title on the cover of the book: Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy.

From Literature

Severinus, born at Rome, consecrated in May, died 640 72.

From Project Gutenberg

Honorius I. was succeeded by Severinus.

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Severinus was Pope for a few months only.

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Likewise John,264 who succeeded Severinus, successor to the same Honorius, being yet but Pope elect, sent to them letters of great authority and erudition for the purpose of correcting the same error; evidently showing, that Easter Sunday is to be found between the fifteenth of the moon and the twenty-first, as was approved in the Council of Nicaea.265 He also in the same epistle admonished them to guard against the Pelagian heresy,266 and reject it, for he had been informed that it was again springing up among them.

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