Lucillus

The Presbyterian Lucillus is known as a close friend and assistant of Saint Severin and thus connected to the city of Passau.

Above all Lucillus rendered outstanding services to Passau by returning captives:

From 60 to 70 AD various Teutonic tribes, particularly the Alemans, struck Batavis/Boiodurum (Passau) repeatedly. When invading the city not only did they sack and pillage, but also capture numerous inhabitants, taking them to their territories where they were kept imprisoned. As handed down through Eugippius, Gibuld, King of the Alemans, however admired St. Severin because of his divine gift. After a fateful encounter with the Saint, King Gibuld granted him a wish. Saint Severin asked Gibuld to prevent his people from invading Roman territory and to release the captives. Severin entrusted monk Lucillus with the task who returned many captives from the regions of the Alemans to Passau.

Lucillus celebrated the burial ceremony of St. Severin and arranged the transfer of his body to Italy:

According to Eugippius predicted St. Severin the day of his death to Lucillus two years in advance and asked him to celebrate his burial ceremony.
In the year 488, six years after the burial of St. Severin, the Romans were ordered to withdraw from the Norikum (southern region of the Danube between Passau and Vienna) was issued. Lucillus, now abbot of Severin’s monastery community, gave orders to open St. Severin’s grave in order to take the body with them to Italy. As it is being handed down through Eugippius, they found the body of the Saint miraculously unchanged. The monks of Favianis (Mautern) then set out with Severin’s body to Italy, led by their abbot Lucillus

• Gottfried Dachauer, Severin von Noricum, S.9 - 13, Diplomarbeit, 1977, Würzburg
• Franz Mader, Tausend Passauer, S. 146,1995, Passau
• Egon Boshof (Hg.), Passau - Quellen zur Stadtgeschichte, S. 11 - 17, 2004, Passau
• Eugippius, Leben des Hl. Severin, S. 66 - 73, 1917, Leipzig

edited and translated by: Stefanie Paulus
(17.8.2004/13.5.2005)