Event Factoid
https://spear-prosop.org/3029-9Event Factoid:
Severus
advises Valeriena to encourage the virgins to an
ascetic life, suggesting their isolation from men, sharing common meals,
discouraging the owning of enslaved people, and emphasize physical
labour.
Sources:
- E. W. Brooks (ed.), Translation, The Sixth Book of the Select Letters of Severus Patriarch of Antioch in the Syriac Version of Athanasius of Nisibis vol. 2.2 (Oxford: Williams and Norgate, 1904), part: 7.01, p: 364-368.