Date: Sometime between 0513 and 0518Event Factoid: Severus wrote a letter to
Anastasius
arguing that the validity of sacraments is not based on the morality of the clergy.
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), p: 231-32, part: III.1.