Ospitone was a Christian

Christian

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 chief of Barbagia

Barbagia

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 in Sardinia

Sardinia

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 in the late sixth century. Gregory the Great, in a letter dated to 594, commended Ospitone for his Christianity at a time when most Barbaricini were still pagans "living, all like irrational animals, ignorant of the truth of God and worshiping wood and stone."

Ospitone confirmed a peace with the Byzantine

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 dux

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Zabarda and consented to allow the missionaries Felix and Ciriaco to penetrate Barbagia.