Hospito

'''Hospito''' (''Hospiton'' in Latin, ''Ospitone'' in Sardinian) was a Sardinian chief of Barbagia (''dux Barbaricinorum'') who converted to Christianity in the late sixth century. Gregory the Great, in a letter dated to 594, commended Hospito for his Christianity at a time when most of the Sardinians from the interior (''Barbaricini'') were still pagans "living, all like irrational animals, ignorant of the truth of God and worshiping wood and stone."<ref>''Quantum vero operis impenderit, ut Ethnicos in Sardinia commorantes (dictos Barbaricini) ad fidem Christi traheret, scriptae ab eo epistolae testantur. [...] Barbaricini omnes, ut insensata animalia vivant, Deum verum nesciant, ligna autem et lapides adorent''.{{cite book|author=Gaspare Saccarelli|year=1785|title=Historia ecclesiastica per annos digesta|volume=13|page=98|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nRNOAAAAYAAJ}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Massimo Pittau|title=Compendio della civiltà dei Sardi nuragici|page=394|publisher=Ipazia Books|year=2018}}</ref>

Hospito confirmed a peace with the Byzantine ''dux'' Zabardas and allowed the missionaries Felix and Ciriacus into Barbagia.

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Category:Medieval Sardinia Category:6th-century Christians

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