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."[1][2]

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

Notes
  1. 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.Gaspare Saccarelli (1785). Historia ecclesiastica per annos digesta. Vol. 13. p. 98.
  2. Massimo Pittau (2018). Compendio della civiltà dei Sardi nuragici. Ipazia Books. p. 394.


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