Sabbas the Goth was a Christian martyr venerated as a saint.
Saint Sabbas's martyrdom
The Goths were a Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe. They were first mentioned by Greco-Roman authors in the 3rd centu
Sabbas the Goth
…river valley and lived in what is now the Wallachia region in Romania and converted to Christianity as a youth. His hagiography states that he was a Goth by race and may have been a cantor or a reader to the religious community there. In circa 369 the Tervingi king Athanaric began a persecution of the…
A stone circle in the area of northern Poland occupied by the Wielbark culture, which is associated with the Goths
Europe in AD 300, showing the distribution of the Goths near the Black Sea
Ring of Pietroassa, dated AD 250 to AD 400 and found in Pietroasele, Romania, features a Gothic language inscription in the Elder Futhark runic alphabet.
Gizur challenges the Huns by Peter Nicolai Arbo, 1886