Eugippius (circa 460 – circa 535,

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) was a disciple and the biographer of Saint Severinus of Noricum. After the latter's death in 482, he took the remains to

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and founded a

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on the site of a 1st-century

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, the Castellum Lucullanum (on the site of the later

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). In 511 Eugippius wrote to Paschasius and asked his venerated and dear friend, who had great literary skill, to write a biography of St. Severinus from the accounts of the saint which he (Eugippius) had put together in crude and inartistic form. Paschasius, however, replied that the acts and miracles of the saint could not be described better than had done by Eugippius. While at Naples, Eugippius compiled a 1000-page

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of the works of St. Augustine and and was probably involved in the revision of the Vulgate text of the Gospels. He also produced other scholarly works of high quality. There is a monastic rule which is ascribed to Eugippius, but it was early superseded by that of St. Benedict''The Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature''. (James Strong and John McClintock, eds.); Harper and Brothers; NY; 1880
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at the University of Evansville

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