The Account of the Revived Parishioner
According to the synaxarion, Severus was at work harvesting grapes in his vineyard when parishioners came to summon him to bring the Holy Mysteries to a dying man. He asked the messengers to go on ahead, intending to finish his work and follow shortly. By the time he reached the sick man's house, he was told the man had already died without receiving the sacrament.
Holding himself responsible for the man dying unabsolved, Severus was seized with grief, trembling and weeping aloud and calling himself a murderer as he fell down beside the body. The tradition relates that the dead man then revived and recounted that demons had sought to seize his soul, but that an angel commanded that he be given back, because the priest Severus was weeping over him and the Lord had granted the man to him on account of those tears.
Severus then heard the man's confession and gave him communion. By the account, the revived man lived a further seven days before peacefully departing to the Lord.