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was bishop of Minorca in the early part of the fifth century, at a time when a great number of the Jews settled in that island were suddenly converted to Christianity.
This happy change was ascribed by the prelate to the presence of the relics of St. Stephen, the protomartyr, which had been deposited in the church at Mago (
Mahon) by Orosius, upon his return front the East [OROSIUS], and the event was solemnly announced to all ecclesiastics throughout the world in a circular letter written A. D. 218, and inscribed
Epistola ad omnes orbis terrarum Episcopos, Presbyteros, et Diaconos.
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This piece was first brought to light from among the MSS. in the Vatican by Baronius, who published it in his annals, and
it will be found also in the Appendix to the seventh volume of the Benedictine edition of St. Augustine, under the title of Severi Epistola ad omnem Ecclesiam de Virtutibus in Minoricensi insula factis per reliquias Sancti Stephani Martyris. [
W.R]
