Event Factoid: Severus also
wrote to Cassian, advocating the view that Thomas's mutilation
was medicinal.
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: 396.