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ty to strangers, he eagerly bestowed gifts upon paupers, and daily offered up goodness in the temple of his body, daily offered up his soul, like the host, at the altar of his heart, in the presence of the almighty Lord. Later the divine command came to him, and his holy soul was released from the flesh. He was buried, as [some] suspect, with the others named above. He sat __ years, __ months, __ days. CONCERNING HOLY MARCELLINUS . Marcellinus, the tenth bishop, just and God-fearing, he destroyed the camps of demons by his prayers and diligently guarded the sheep that had been bestowed upon him by the Lord, so that that monstrous wolf, which daily rants and raves against them, should not be able to tear them to pieces outside his church and carry off prey from among his sheep; so that it might not devour in its bestial maw the souls of Christians which the holy man had acquired for Almighty God, nor deliver them to the power of hell with its infernal chains binding them. And when the course of many years was run, he let slip the pontificate and his life; his body emitted such fragrant odors that the noses of those burying him seemed to smell incense of precious myrrh.1 He was buried, as some allow, in the basilica of blessed Probus. He sat __ years, __ months, __ days. CONCERNING HOLY SEVERUS, C. 340’S . Severus, the eleventh bishop,1 whose name in its formation means “true fierce.” This does not pertain to savagery, but to   . The miraculous preservation and odor of saintly bodies is a common topos in hagiography; compare, for example, Gregory of Tours, Liber vitae patrum . and Gloria martyrum , and LPR, c. , below. z . “Severus ab Italia de Ravennensi” is listed as having been present at the Council of Sardica of  (Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum , col. ); Severus is thus the first ...

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