I was looking up the names Sabrina and Sabina to see if they were related (apparently not), & I kept find references to, and I quote:
Always the same, never with a link explaining, & on dozens of sites.
Content theft?
Viral advertising?
Or something more mysterious?
Clue me in on this, folks.
A lot of sites get hits by copying text from wikipedia. The phrase is on this wikipedia page. So I’m guessing thats where the phrase originated.
Which leaves the question of why its on the wiki disambugation page. I can’t find any reason why St Sabina would be a monster, or evil. And it seems like a pretty obscure figure for someone to be holding a grudge and vandalizing her webpage. The actual page on St Sabina and its talk page doesn’t seemed to have attracted any weird edits.
Weird.
I fixed that mis-coded link for you, Simplicio.
Perhaps an English-as-a-possible-language attempt to reference the Devil’s Stone in the Basilica of St. Sabina? Link with picture at Italian wikipedia:
“…also the story of the round black stone on a spiral column to the left of the entry door: it’s called Lapis Diabili, or “the devil’s stone,” because, according to legend, it would have been thrown by the devil at St. Dominic while he prayed on the marble slab that covered the bones of some martyrs, fending it off in pieces. In reality the stone was broken by the architect Domenico Fontana during the restoration of 1527 to move the martyrs’ tomb.”
Rough translation courtesy of yours truly; Italian speakers are welcome to correct any errors. There’s lots of versions of this to be found online, including English so terrible it isn’t really helpful here.
Hmmm…all interesting…anybody else?
No, it’s garden-variety vandalism. The original text was “Sabina (saint), dedicatee of the basilica of Santa Sabina.”
I fixed it.