Date: Sometime between 0519 and 0538Event Factoid: Severus wrote a letter to
Caesaria
discussing heaven, hell, and the rites of almsgiving and the eucharist performed on
behalf of the dead.
Sources:
E. W. Brooks and E. W. Brooks, eds.,Letters LXII to CXVII,inA Collection of Letters of Severus of Antioch , from Numerous Syriac Manuscripts, Patrologia Orientalis 14 (Paris: Firmin-Didot et cie, 1919), p: 284-90, part: 117.