Pope Sabinianus
Sabinianus,
pope from
604 to
606. He incurred unpopularity by his unseasonable economies, although the
Liber Pontificalis states that he distributed grain during a famine at Rome under his pontificate. The erudite Italian
Augustinian Onofrio Panvinio (
1529-
1568) in his
Epitome pontificum Romanorum (Venice,
1557) attributes to this pope the introduction of the custom of ringing
bells at the canonical hours and for the celebration of the
eucharist.
Using text from a 1911 encyclopedia