E06338: Two letters of Pope Gregory the Great (Register 3.1 and 10.7), of 592 and 600, mention the monastery dedicated to *Severinus (hermit and monk of Noricum, ob. 482, S00848) in the castrum Lucullanum outside Naples (southern Italy). Written in Latin in Rome.

Pope Gregory the Great, Register of Letters 3.1


Extract from a letter dealing with trouble in Naples:

Mancipia autem si qua de cetero in monasterium sancti Seuerini uel in alia ecclesia eiusdem castelli de ciuitate refugerint, mox ad notitiam tuam peruenerit, nullomodo illic ea immorari permittas, sed intra ciuitatem in ecclesiam reuocentur.

‘But if some slaves from the rest have taken refuge from the city in the monastery of Saint Severinus or in another church in the same fortress [the castrum Lucullanum, just outside Naples], as soon as it comes to your notice, in no way allow them to stay there, but let them be recalled into a church inside the city.’


Pope Gregory the Great, Register of Letters 10.7


Extract from a letter dealing with the bishopric of Sorrento:

Postquam is qui ad episcopatum Sorrentinae ciuitatis electus fuerat aptus nobis non uisus est, Amandum presbyterum oratorii sancti Seuerini, quod in castro Lucullano situm est, elegerunt.

‘After the priest elected to the bishopric of the city of Sorrento appeared unsuitable to us, they elected Amandus, priest of the oratory of Saint Severinus, situated in the castrum Lucullanum.’


Text: Norberg 1982, vol. 1, 147, and vol. 2, 832. Translation: Martyn 2004, vol. 1, 236 and vol. 3, 718, modified.