Pope Sabinianus
Sabinianus (died February 22, 606) was pope from 604 to 606. He was born at Blera (Bieda) near Viterbo and was consecrated pope probably on September 13, 604. He had been sent by Pope Gregory I as Apostolic nuncio, to Constantinople, but he apparently was not entirely satisfactory in that office. He returned to Rome in 597. He incurred unpopularity by his unseasonable economies, although the Liber Pontificalis states that he distributed grain during a famine at Rome under his pontificate. The erudite Italian Augustinian Onofrio Panvinio (1529-1568) in his Epitome pontificum Romanorum (Venice, 1557) attributes to him the introduction of the custom of ringing bells at the canonical hours and the celebration of the Eucharist. Using text from a 1911 encyclopedia
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