Severus Sanctus Endelechius

Severus Sanctus Endelechius or Endelechus, also known as Severus rhetorician, was a Christian orator and poet of the late Roman antiquity, who lived in the 4th century AD and probably originated from Gaul. He was a friend of St Paulinus of Nola, who dedicated his Pangyrik of Theodosius.

Endelechius wrote, among other things, the poem De mortibus boum, in which he describes an outbreak of rinderpest, before a Christian shepherd protects his cattle by the sign of the cross.