As we said, this war is named after him because the monastery of St. Sabas in Acre was one of the most fought over locations during the conflict.
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If you go to the Church of Sant Antonin in the Castello district of Venice today, you can find a side chapel dedicated to Saint Sabas.
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SimonHOST
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Until the mid-1960s, it contained his mortal remains.
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SimonHOST
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That side chapel was built by the Tiepolo family, and the likelihood is that the bones made their way to Venice at some point during the crusading era, so it's often assumed that they were brought back home by the victorious Venetian admiral after this war.
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