Saint Sabinus of Piacenza

Memorial

• 17 January
• formerly 11 December

Profile

Bishop of Piacenza, Italy. Friend of Saint Ambrose of Milan, he regularly read and commented on the first draft of Ambrose‘s writings. Dispatched by Pope Saint Damasus I to Antioch to suppress the Meletian Schism. Attended the Council of Aquileia in 381.

Died

• 420 of natural causes

Canonized

• Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

• Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
• Catholic Online
• Heiligen 3s
• Katherine Rabenstein
• Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

MLA Citation

• “Saint Sabinus of Piacenza”. Saints.SQPN.com. 11 December 2012. Web. 19 May 2013. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-sabinus-of-piacenza/>