Ospitone
Sign in to saveHospito (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."
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Ospitone o Hospitone (in latino Hospiton) (... – ...; fl. VI secolo) è stato un nobile e capo dei , vissuto nella seconda metà del VI secolo, all'epoca della dominazione bizantina; è citato da papa Gregorio Magno in un'epistola come dux barbaricinorum.
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