SABA, SALVATORE, of OZIERI. – Titular Archbishop of Carthage, b. at Ozieri on 3 Sept. 1795, d. at Cotacamund (Nilgiris) on 29 May 1863.
He entered the novitiate of the Minor Capuchins on 7 Sept. 1811, taught philosophy and theology, was consultor of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda (1838) and of the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office, definitor general (1838–44), prefect of the missionary college of St Fidelis in Sigmaringa in Rome (1848), minister general (1853–59), and was consecrated archbishop on 5 Oct. 1862.
As minister general he proposed new regulations for the college of St Fidelis (1859), established a special procurator for the missions (1859), and oversaw the organization of schools with the Regulations of Studies (Bari 1856) and the establishment (1857) of a generalate in Bologna. In 1862 Pius IX sent him as apostolic commissioner to Portuguese East India to resolve difficulties in the application of the Concordat between the Holy See and Peter V of Portugal. Having completed his mission in Goa and Bombay, he fell ill and died while travelling to Coimbatore.