During the persecution of Diocletian he and several other Christians concealed themselves in a hut.
Their presence there was ultimately revealed to the government by someone whose identity remains dubious.
Sabinus was then taken to Antinoöpolis, where, after being subjected to a variety of tortures, he was drowned in the Nile.
His feast day in the Roman Catholic Church is March 13.
The Greek Orthodox Church gives him the full office of March 16.