Feast Day of St. Sabas the Goth, April 12

St. Sabas was a Goth....but not the glum, black-clad people I see around campus. He was one of the East Germanic people (from Romania) born in 334 AD. From Catholic Online:

Also Sabbas the Goth, a martyrin the area of modern Romania. He was a Goth converted to Christianity in his youth and became alector in Targoviste, Romania, to apriest named Sansala. He survived several persecutions of the local Church under thepaganGoths, but finally was seized with Sansala by a group of Gothic soldiers and ordered to eat meat which had been sacrificed to idols. Brutally tortured with several other Christians, Sabas was finally drowned in the Mussovo River, near Targoviste. About fifty others were put to death with him.