The passio s. Sabae Gothi (BHG 1607) is a valuable document of the Gospel’s spread to the North of the Lower Danube (Gothia). Christianity finds and develops within multiethnic and multireligious villages and clans loyal relationships of solidarity and mutual respect, defended to the bitter end even in the face of anti-Christian Athanaric’s persecution (369-372). The passio insists on ‘irenic’ character of Saba and his story, also to convey, inside and outside the Empire, a message of peace and integration with the Barbaricum under the religious protection of salvific universalism of Christianity, a creed of peace and love (represented by Bretanion and Basil, respectively bishops of Tomis and Caesarea of Cappadocia) and under the policy of Rome, represented by Soranus, Roman- Christian governor of the Scythia minor, in close contact with both and the first co-author of translatio ― or ‘ownership’ ― of the remains of a ‘barbarian’ martyr to Caesarea, inside the imperial Romània.
Dinamiche multietniche ed interreligiose sul limes danubiano nel IV secolo: il martirio di Saba il goto
GIRARDI, Mario
2012-01-01
Abstract
The passio s. Sabae Gothi (BHG 1607) is a valuable document of the Gospel’s spread to the North of the Lower Danube (Gothia). Christianity finds and develops within multiethnic and multireligious villages and clans loyal relationships of solidarity and mutual respect, defended to the bitter end even in the face of anti-Christian Athanaric’s persecution (369-372). The passio insists on ‘irenic’ character of Saba and his story, also to convey, inside and outside the Empire, a message of peace and integration with the Barbaricum under the religious protection of salvific universalism of Christianity, a creed of peace and love (represented by Bretanion and Basil, respectively bishops of Tomis and Caesarea of Cappadocia) and under the policy of Rome, represented by Soranus, Roman- Christian governor of the Scythia minor, in close contact with both and the first co-author of translatio ― or ‘ownership’ ― of the remains of a ‘barbarian’ martyr to Caesarea, inside the imperial Romània.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.