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.

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  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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