MICHELE PATRI
Senator
SEVERA OF PYRGI IS SCOURGED TO DEATH AS A CHRISTIAN REBEL
The first document that speaks of Severa is a manuscript from the Abbey of Farfa composed around the year 850 and narrates the capture, interrogation and martyrdom of the daughter of Maximus comes millenarius, who was from a Christian family.
The story takes place at the time of the persecution of Christians by Emperor Diocletian around the year 298. The young Severa was a prisoner in Pyrgi with her mother Seconda and her brothers Marco and Calendino. Severa's mother Seconda died before being interrogated. Severa was interrogated by the prefect Flavianus who, during an intense and passionate interview, converted and was therefore beheaded at Centumcellæ on 29 January. A few months later, on 5 June, Severa and her brothers also suffered martyrdom with lead scourges in Pyrgi.
The first document that speaks of Severa is a manuscript from the Abbey of Farfa composed around the year 850 and narrates the capture, interrogation and martyrdom of the daughter of Maximus comes millenarius, who was from a Christian family.
The story takes place at the time of the persecution of Christians by Emperor Diocletian around the year 298. The young Severa was a prisoner in Pyrgi with her mother Seconda and her brothers Marco and Calendino. Severa's mother Seconda died before being interrogated. Severa was interrogated by the prefect Flavianus who, during an intense and passionate interview, converted and was therefore beheaded at Centumcellæ on 29 January. A few months later, on 5 June, Severa and her brothers also suffered martyrdom with lead scourges in Pyrgi.