Saint Sabina
{{Short description|Roman martyr and saint}}
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|name=Sabina
|birth_date=1st century AD
|death_date=c. 119 to 126 AD
|feast_day=29 August
|venerated_in=Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
|image=File:Saint Sabina of Rome. Coloured etching. Wellcome V0033336.jpg
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|birth_place=Rome
|death_place=Rome
|titles=Martyr
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|canonized_date=Pre-Congregation
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|attributes= book, palm and crown[https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/08/29/st--sabine--roman-martyr-in-the-homonym-church-on-the-aventino.html "St. Sabine", Vatican News]
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|major_shrine=Santa Sabina on the Aventine Hill, Rome
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Saint Sabina is a saint of the early church, believed to have lived and suffered martyrdom at the beginning of the 2nd century in Rome. Her feast day is 29 August.
Narrative
File:Santa Sabina2013-08-27.JPG of St Sabina in the local parish of Santi Pietro e Paolo in Ascona.]]
Sabina was the daughter of Herod Metallarius and the wealthy widow of Senator Valentinus,{{cite web|url=http://www.stsabina.org/history.html|title=History of St. Sabina and St. Sabina Church|publisher=}} originally from Avezzano in the Abruzzo region of Italy.
Sabina converted to Christianity due to the example of her Syrian slave Serapia. The widow then withdrew with a few devout friends to one of her country seats, where she spent her time doing good works. Serapia was denounced and beheaded in the city of Vindena in the state of Umbria. Sabina rescued her remains and had them interred in the family mausoleum where she also expected to be buried. Sabina was later denounced as well, and accused of being a Christian by Elpidio the Prefect. She was thereupon martyred in Rome {{circa|126 AD}}.[http://ww1.antiochian.org/node/19405 "St. Sabina, Martyr, at Rome", Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese]
In 430 her relics were brought to the Aventine Hill, to the newly erected basilica Santa Sabina on the site of her house, originally situated near a temple of Juno.{{cite book | first=Leland M. | last=Roth | year=1993 | title=Understanding Architecture: Its Elements, History and Meaning | edition=First | publisher=Westview Press | location=Boulder, CO | isbn=978-0-06-430158-9 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/understandingarc00roth/page/245 245] | url=https://archive.org/details/understandingarc00roth/page/245 }} This house may also have formed an early Christian titular church. The church was initially dedicated to both Sabina and Serapia.
Commentary
According to Klemens Löffler, writing for the Catholic Encyclopedia, the Acts of the martyrdom have no historic value.[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13290a.htm Löffler, Klemens. "St. Sabina." The Catholic Encyclopedia] Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 3 December 2021 {{PD-notice}} Maya Maskarinec suggests that "'Sabina'...was most plausibly the donor who had provided the titulus with property on the Aventine."[https://books.google.com/books?id=UEdMDwAAQBAJ&dq=Saint+Serapia&pg=PA106 Maskarinec, Maya. City of Saints: Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages] University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018, p. 105 {{ISBN|9780812250084}} Often this was a private home to be used as a church. When someone donated property or money, the resulting foundation bore their name. The passio that developed during the sixth to eighth century becomes attached to the memory regarding a late fourth or early fifth century philanthropist. "Gradually, however, throughout Rome, many of the tituli's donors metamorphosed into their communities' patron saints."
References
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External links
{{Commonscat|Saint Sabina}}
- {{cite web |url=http://www.stsabinaparish.org/patron_saint.html |title=Saint Sabina, The Woman|publisher=Saint Sabina Parish|accessdate=2014-12-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141017000711/http://www.stsabinaparish.org/patron_saint.html |archivedate=2014-10-17 }}
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Category:2nd-century Christian saints
Category:Year of birth unknown
Category:Ancient Christian female saints
Category:2nd-century Christian martyrs
Category:2nd-century Roman women
Category:Executed ancient Roman women
Category:Converts to Christianity from ancient Roman religions