|
Sabbas (also Sava, Savo, Saba, or Savva; died 12 April, 372 A. D.) the Goth is a fourth-century Christian martyr and saint. ==Life and Persecution== He was born in 334〔He was 38 when he died, ''The Passion of St. Saba the Goth'', VII.5, and was martyred in 372 A.D., ''ibid'', VII.6.〕 in a village in the Buzău river valley and lived in what is now the Wallachia region in Romania〔'the river Musaios', ''Passion'', VII.1; identified as Buzau river by e.g. Halsall (2007), 4 n. 3, Wolfram (1988), 104; ''contra'' Butler, (1866), vol IV, ''April 12, Saint Sabas the Goth, Abbot and Martyr'', 1 n. 2 where it is identified as the Mussovo River.〕 and converted to Christianity as a youth.〔Butler (1866), vol IV, ''April 12: St. Sabas the Goth, Abbot and Martyr'', 1.〕 His hagiography states that he was a Goth by race and may have been a cantor or a reader to the religious community there.〔''Passion'', II.2.〕 In ''circa'' 369 the Tervingi king Athanaric began a persecution of the Christians in his territory.〔Heather (1991), 105 and n. 62.〕 First, a Gothic nobleman began the suppression of Christianity in Sabbas' area. When his agents came to the village where Sabbas lived they forced the villagers to eat pagan sacrificial meat. According to the tale, non-Christian villagers wanting to help their Christian neighbours tricked the authorities by exchanging the sacrificial meat for meat that had not been sacrificed. However, Sabbas made a conspicuous show of rejecting the meat altogether. His fellow villagers exiled him but after a while he was allowed to return. Some time after, the Gothic noble returned and asked if there were any Christians in the village. Sabbas stepped forward and proclaimed, "'Let no-one swear an oath on my behalf. I am a Christian." Sabbas' neighbours then said that he was a poor man of no account. The leader dismissed him, saying, "This one can do us neither good nor harm." In the year 372, Sabbas celebrated Easter with the priest Sansalas. Three days after Easter Atharid, the son of the Athanric's sub-king Rothesteus, arrived in the village to arrest Sansalas. Saba was dragged naked through thorn bushes, then racked, alongside the priest Sansalas, to a wagon wheel, and whipped. The next day he was offered pagan sacrificed meat again. He was, however still recalcitrant, and suggested they tell Atharid to kill him. Sabbas also so angered one of Atharid's retinue by insulting the prince that he hurled a pestle as if it were a javelin at Sabbas so hard that those nearby were sure he was dead, but it left no mark. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sabbas the Goth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|