Sabinus of Canosa
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Saint Sabinus of Canosa | |
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| Major shrine | Cattedrale di Canosa, Italy |
| Feast | February_9 |
| Patronage | Canosa, Atripalda |
Saint Sabinus of Canosa (
bishop of Canosa di Puglia
from 514.
Life
He was sent twice as a papal envoy to
Monophysite heresy. He attended the Council of Constantinople (536)
.
In 531, in the papacy of
Benedictine discipline of Ora et labora
("Work and pray").
He died after 52 years as bishop, on 9 February 566.
Cult
Sabinus was a friend of
Ostrogoth King Totila into the Italian peninsula. According to the hagiographic legend, he succeeded in saving Canosa di Puglia
from the threat of the latter. There is a story that in 548 Totila wanted to test the prophetic gifts of Sabinus, who was by then old and blind. The king, pretending to be a servant, offered him a goblet of wine, but Sabinus was not deceived and thanked him by name, which impressed Totila so much that he renounced his pillaging.
Another legend of Sabinus relates that a jealous archdeacon tried to poison him. Sabinus drank the poison but did not die; but the archdeacon did. For this reason he appeared in the liturgy as a protector against poisons.
His relics were translated to the present
Saint Angelarius in 844 and taken to Bari Cathedral
.
Saint Sabinus is venerated in Canosa and Bari, in both of which places the cathedrals are dedicated to him, in Torremaggiore and Furci.
The only church in the
Church of St Sabinus in Woolacombe in Devon
.
Feast days
- Canosa di Puglia, 9 February: death of Saint Sabinus
- Festa Patronale
- Canosa di Puglia, 31 July to 2 August: Festa Patronale
References
- Gerardo A. Chiancone - La Cattedrale e il Mausoleo di Boemondo a Canosa (tip. D. Guglielmi, Andria, 1983; pag. 54)
- Attilio Paulicelli - San Sabino nella storia di Canosa (tip. San Paolo, Bari, 1967)
- La tradizione barese di s. Sabino di Canosa. A cura di Salvatore Palese. Bari, Edipuglia, 2001. Contiene i seguenti studi:
- Ada Campione, Sabino di Canosa tra storia e leggenda, p. 23-46
- Pasquale Corsi, Canosa e Bari nelle modificazioni ecclesiastiche dei Bizantini, p. 47-56
- Gioia Bertelli, Le reliquie di s. Sabino da Canosa a Bari: tra tradizione e archeologia, p. 57-78
- Gerardo Cioffari o. p., Le origini del culto di s. Sabino a Bari, p. 79-98
- Nicola Bux, La liturgia barese di s. Sabino, p. 99-106
- Anna Maria Tripputi, La devozione barese a s. Sabino in età moderna e contemporanea, p. 107-114
- Francesco Quarto - Un isolato omaggio tra devozione ed erudizione. La vita di S. Sabino del canonico Giuseppe Di Cagno, p. 115-170.
- La Historia di S. Sabino di Antonio Beatillo (1629). A cura di Francesco Quarto. In Nicolaus Studi Storici, XVII, 2006, p. 97-160.
External links
- Santi E Beati: San Sabino di Canosa (in Italian)
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