Event Factoid: With regard to the mutilation of Thomas, Severus advises
Aurelius
to allow him his priestly office if the mutilation was performed by a
physician because of an illness, but to deny him if Thomas mutilated
himself.
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: 8.03, p: 395-396.