Event Factoid: Severus sent a
letter to Cassian concerning the vexing question of the ordination
of Dorotheus
who had been castrated by a physician and not of his own will.
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: 8.02, p: 394-395.