Event Factoid: Severus
advises Jannia
to rule with fear and mercy, bringing forth repentance through ascetic
acts of penance, and dismissing women if the community is threatened by
their actions.
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 II: Letters III.1-XI.1, vol. 2.2 (London: Williams and Norgate, 1904), part: 7.02, p: 368-370.