Crying for a Pacifier?
T imes of unrest surely outnumber times of peace. Of course, not every age has Attila the Hun. But one of them did. January 8 is the commemoration of Severinus of Noricum, who lived in the fifth century at a time of great upheaval in Pannonia (Austria). His Life was written by his disciple Eugippius after Severinus' death in 482. Eugippius wrote what he called a memoir of Severinus and sent it to the Deacon Paschasius, imploring him: "Illustrious minister of Christ, thou hast the memoir. From it make by thy editorial care a profitable work." Paschasius read it and replied: "Thou hast sent me ...