Sabas

ON SAINT SABAS,

MARTYR AMONG THE GREEKS.

Sabas Martyr, among the Greeks (S.)

G. H.

The ancient MS. Menaea, which we found preserved at Dijon with Peter Francis of the Society of Jesus in the year 1662, refer at these Kalends of May St. Sabas, hung by his fingers on a fig tree, and so having ended his glorious life, and add this distich.

Ἤνεγκε καρπὸν πρωἳμενης συκῆς Κλάδος τὸν χειροδεσμοῖς ἐκκρεμαμενον Σάβαν.

The branch of an early-ripening fig brought forth fruit, Sabas hung from his bound hands.