Event Factoid: Severus
encouraged Solon to live a holy and virtuous life, modelling the
piety of Jesus
andthe martyrs, especially Thecla, so that the
legitimacy of his ordination by a bishop outside of the diocese might be
confirmed.
Sources:
Ernest Walter Brooks,The Sixth Book of the Select Letters of Severus, Patriarch of Antioch, in the Syriac
Version of Athanasius of Nisibis. Translation, Part I: Letters I.1-II.3, vol. 2.1 (London: Williams and Norgate, 1903), part: 1.02, p: 12-13.