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

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Porto Torres Porto Torres ( sdc, Posthudorra, sc, Portu Turre) is a comune and a city of the Province of Sassari in north-west of Sardinia, Italy. Founded during the 1st century BC as ''Colonia Iulia Turris Libisonis'', it was the first Roman colony of the ...

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(the ancient Turris) sometime in the second century under

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. He was martyred alongside a Saint Crispulus. His

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is 30 May, along with Crispulus, in the

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, 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 (Lat ...

(''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, is of no historical value and the relations it attributes to Susanna are entirely fictitious.Mi ...

and brother of

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(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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