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The holy, glorious, and right-victorious Great-martyr '''Sava the Goth''', also known as '''Sava the Romanian''', is the earliest known native-born [[martyr]] on Romanian soil. He was born in 334 to Christian parents in a village in the Buzău valley and his ''Act of Martyrdom'' states that he was a Goth by race. His [[feast day]] is on the date of his martyrdom, [[April 1215]].
==Life==
St. [[Basil the Great]] requested of the ruler of Scythia Minor, Junius Soranus, that he should send him the relics of saints and so the Dacian priests sent the relics of St. Sava to him in Caesaria, Cappadocia, in 373 or 374 accompanied by a letter, the ''Epistle of the Church of God in Gothia to the Church of God located in Cappadocia and to all the Local Churches of the Holy Universal Church''. This letter is the oldest known writing to be composed on Romanian soil and was written in Greek, possibly by St. [[Vetranion of Tomis]].
In response St. Basil replied with two letters to Bishop Ascholius where he extolled the virtues of St. Sava , calling him an 'athlete of Christ' and 'Martyr for the truth'. ==External link==*[http://ocafs.oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?FSID=101105
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