The Lives of the Saints Volume 1 - St. Patrick's Basilica

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2. Ep. 83, ad Magn.
3. B. 71.
4. Hist. B. 5, c. 5.
5. Apol. c. 5. L. ad Scap. c. 4.
6. Chron.
7. Or. 2, de 40 mart.
8. _Christianorum_ FORTE _militum precationibus impetrato imbri_.
Tertull. Apolog. c. 5. Euseb. l. 5, c. 5. Some take the word _forte_
here to signify, _casually, accidentally, as hap was_. Several
learned Protestants have written in defence of this miracle: see Mr.
Weston's dissertation in 1748. The exceptions of Le Clerc, Hist.
Eccl. p. 744, and of Moyle, in his essay on the Thundering Legion,
deserve no notice. The deliverance of the emperor is represented on
the _Columna Antoniniana_, in Rome, by the figure of a Jupiter
Pluvius, being that of an old man flying in the air, with his arms
expanded, and a long beard which seems to waste away in rain. The
soldiers are there represented as relieved by this sudden tempest,
and in a posture, partly drinking of the rain-water, and partly
fighting against the enemy; who, on the contrary are represented as
stretched out on the ground with their horses, and upon them only
the dreadful part of the storm descending. The original letter of
Marcus Aurelius concerning this matter, was extant when Tertullian
and St. Jerom wrote. See Hier. in Chron. Euseb. ad annum 176. Tert.
Apol. c. 5, et lib. ad Scapul. The letter of Marcus Aurelius to the
senate now extant, is rejected as supposititious by Scaliger,
(Animadv. In Eus. ad an. 189.).It is published in the new edition of
the works of Marcus Aurelius, printed by Robert Fowlis in 1748, t.
1, p. 127, in Greek, t. 2, p. 126, in Latin, with notes, ib. p. 212.
Mamachi, t. 1, p 366.
ST. SEVERINUS, ABBOT,
AND APOSTLE OF NORICUM, OR AUSTRIA.
From his life, by Eugippius his disciple, who was present at his death.
See Tillemont, t. 16, p. 168. Lambecius Bibl. Vend. t. 1, p. 28, and
Bollandus, p. 497.
A.D. 482.
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WE know nothing of the birth or country of this saint. From the purity
of his Latin, he was generally supposed to be a Roman; and his care to