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Sabbas the Gothis a martyr and Christian saint.He was born in 334 to Christian parents in a village in the Buzău river valley and lived in Wallachia in what is now Romania. His Act of Martyrdom states that he was a Goth by race. He may have been a cantor or a reader reader there.In the year 371, a Gothic ruler started repressing Christianity in his area. When his agents came to the village where Sabbas lived, they forced the villagers to eat sacrificial meat. Pagan villagers wanting to help their Christian neighbours had tricked the authorities by exchanging the sacrificial meat by meat that had not been sacrificed. However, Sabbas made a conspicuous show a rejecting the meat altogether. His fellow villagers then exiled him, but after a while he was allowed back. When the Gothic noble returned and asked if there were any Christians about, Sabbas stepped forward and said, “'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 then dismissed him, saying, “This one can do us neither good nor harm.”
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