![[Pope Sabinian]](pope0065.jpg "20kb jpg illustration of Pope Sabinian, date unknown, artist unknown; please do not write to ask about the image")
Reigned from 13 September 604 to 22 February 606.
Born in Blera (Bieda), Italy; died on 22 February 606 in Rome, Italy.
Sent by Pope Saint Gregory I as papal nuncio to Constantinople in 593, and returned to Rome in 597.
The pontificate of Sabinanus was disturbed by a threatened invasion of the Lombards, and by a famine.
Some sources say he started the tradition of ringing bells at the canonical hours, and during the celebration of the Eucharist.
New Catholic Dictionary
