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The Cult of Saints in Late Antiquity


from its origins to circa AD 700, across the entire Christian world


Name

Sabina, martyr of Rome, with church on the Aventine hill

Saint ID

S01546

Gender
Female
Type of Saint
Martyrs
Related Evidence Records
IDTitle
E00688The Notitia ecclesiarum urbis Romae, a guide to saints' graves around Rome, lists those on the via Portuensis, south-west of the city. Written in Latin in Rome, 625/649.
E04770Three scarcely preserved Latin graffiti, possibly recording the names of *Neon and Marcellus belonging to the group of the *Greek Martyrs of Rome ($SXXXX), and the name of a reader of the titulus of *Sabina (martyr of Rome, S01546). Found at a cemetery on the via Appia, Rome. One of the texts was arguably dated to the mid-4th c.
E06046Mosaics in the nave of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna (northern Italy) depicting twenty-two female saints, preceded by the three Magi, processing towards the Virgin and Child, and twenty-six male saints, probably originally preceded by *Stephen (the First Martyr, S00030), processing towards Christ; created under Bishop Agnellus, 557/564.
E06335Gregory the Great in a papal letter (Register 2.46) of 591/592, to the sub-deacon Sabinus, mentions 'the steps of saint *Sabina' (martyr of Rome, with church on the Aventine hill, S01546) in Rome. Written in Latin in Rome.
E06362The decrees of a synod held by Pope Gregory the Great in 595 in St Peter’s basilica, Rome, are subscribed by presbyters from many of the city's titular churches, all dedicated to saints (Register 5.57a). Written in Latin in Rome.
E06417A document of Pope Gregory the Great (Register 11.15), of AD 600, grants Probus, abbot of the monastery of *Andrew (the apostle, S00288) and *Lucia (virgin and martyr of Syracuse, S00846) in Rome, the right to make a will, in front of witnesses, many of them priests of the titular churches of Rome. Written in Latin in Rome.