Saint Gabinus (commonly anglicized as Saint Gavin or Saint Gabin) is the title given to two personages. *

Saint Gabinus Saint Gabinus (commonly anglicized as Saint Gavin or Saint Gabin) is the title given to two personages. * Saint Gabinus, who died as a martyr at Porto Torres, Sardinia, Italy (the ancient Turris) sometime in the second century under Emperor Hadrian ...

, who died as a

martyr A martyr (, ''mártys'', 'witness' Word stem, stem , ''martyr-'') is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an external party. In ...

Porto Torres Porto Torres (; ) is a (municipality) and a city of the Province of Sassari in north-west of Sardinia, Italy. Founded during the 1st century BC as , it was the first Roman colony of the entire Sardinia, island. It is situated on the coast at abo ...

Sardinia Sardinia ( ; ; ) is the Mediterranean islands#By area, second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the Regions of Italy, twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia an ...

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(the ancient Turris) sometime in the second century under

Emperor Hadrian Hadrian ( ; ; 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. Hadrian was born in Italica, close to modern Seville in Spain, an Italic peoples, Italic settlement in Hispania Baetica; his branch of the Aelia gens, Aelia '' ...

. He was martyred alongside a Saint Crispulus. His

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is May 30, along with Crispulus, in the

Roman Martyrology The ''Roman Martyrology'' () is the official martyrology of the Catholic Church. Its use is obligatory in matters regarding the Roman Rite liturgy, but dioceses, countries and religious institutes may add duly approved appendices to it. It provid ...

, the official though professedly incomplete list of saints recognized by the

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.''Martyrologium Romanum'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2001 ) According to a twelfth-century ''Passio'', Gabinus was a Roman soldier put in charge of a priest and a deacon imprisoned for their faith, they converted him to

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, and all three died as martyrs. Each year on 3 May three wooden statues representing the three martyrs are taken in procession from the

Basilica of Saint Gabinus The Basilica di San Gavino (Basilica of Saint Gabinus) is a proto- Romanesque church in Porto Torres, Sardinia, Italy. A former cathedral, it is now a place for the veneration of local martyrs and a parish church. History Turris Libisonis (Lati ...

(''Basilica di San Gavino''), the largest and oldest of the Romanesque church of Sardinia, to a little church where there are three rock-cut tombs of

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times. in which the statues are placed until

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. The little church then becomes a place of pilgrimage until the statues are return to the basilica in another procession on Pentecost evening, after which the little church remains closed until the following 3 May. *Saint Gabinus, said to be the father of

Saint Susanna Susanna of Rome (fl. 3rd century) was a Christian martyr of the Diocletianic Persecution. Her existing hagiography, written between about 450 and 500 AD, is of no historical value and the relations it attributes to Susanna are entirely fictitio ...

and brother of

Pope Caius Pope Caius (died 22 April 296), also called Gaius, was the bishop of Rome from 17 December 283 to his death in 296. Little information on Caius is available except that given by the ''Liber Pontificalis'', which relies on a legendary account of ...

(283-296), and, though a relative of Emperor

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to have been beheaded in 296 for refusing to sacrifice to the pagan gods. His relics are venerated in Holy Trinity church in

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, where his

is celebrated on 19 February and is also included on that date in the Roman Martyrology. __NOTOC__

References

External links

Santi Gavino, Proto e Gianuario Martiri di Porto Torres

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