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Excerpt from The Life of Saint Severinus, Vol. 1
Mention may be made of two popular accounts of Severinus for English readers: Alban Butler's in The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and other Principal Saints (london, 1812 vol. I, pp. 113 ff; and Charles Kingsley's in The Hermits (london, pp. 224 - 239, with a translation of Chapter VIII. Sabine baring-gould, after excising all passages of Kingsley's essay that could offend the most credulous, reprints the remainder in The Lives of the Saints (lon don, 1872 vol. I, pp. 101 - 112.
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