Sabbas
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Sabbas is the name of a number of Christian
saints:
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Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
saints:
- Sabbas the SanctifiedSabbas the SanctifiedSaint Sabbas the Sanctified , a Cappadocian-Greek monk, priest and saint, lived mainly in Palaestina Prima. He was the founder of several monasteries, most notably the one known as Mar Saba...
- Palestinian Monastic - Sabbas the GothSabbas the GothSabbas the Goth is a martyr and Christian saint.He was born in 334 to Christian parents in a village in the Buzău river valley and lived in what is now the Wallachia region in Romania...
martyred 12 April, 372, by being drowned in the Musaeus, a tributary of the Danube - Sabbas StratelatesSabbas StratelatesSaint Sabbas Stratelates , Sabbas the General of Rome — early Christian warrior saint and martyr, was Roman military general under emperor Aurelian. He is the 'twin' of Saint Sabbas the Goth. His martyrdom was followed by 70 Roman soldiers.Saint Sabbas Stratelates came from a Gothic tribe...
, also a Goth, martyred with about seventy others at Rome, under Aurelian - Julianus Sabbas, a hermit near Edessa, d. about 380
- Sabbas the Younger, a Basilian abbot, 6 February, 990 or 991, at the monastery of St. Caesarius in Rome
- Saint SavaSaint SavaSaint Sava was a Serbian Prince and Orthodox monk, the first Archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church, the founder of Serbian law and literature, and a diplomat. Sava was born Rastko Nemanjić , the youngest son of Serbian Grand Župan Stefan Nemanja , and ruled the appanage of Hum briefly in...
, Archbishop of Serbia
also
- SawaSawa (bishop)Metropolitan Sawa, is the leader of the Polish Orthodox Church , the second largest organized religion in Poland. He holds the title of Metropolitan of Warsaw....
, Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland, leader of the Polish Orthodox Church.