The holy Sansala the Confessor was a priest from the Buzău valley in Romania and the spiritual father of the Great-martyr Sava the Goth. He and Sava carried out missionary work in the area around Buzău, converting many pagan Dacians and Goths to Christianity. Sansala took the relics of the martyr and hid them until they could be taken out of the Gothic kingdom to the safety of the Roman Empire. The saint bravely remained in Dacia and continued his missionary activities which continued to meet with great success. He eventually died towards the end of the 4th century.