Cicero mentions that Ennius applied the epithet Sanctus to poets.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
The Sanctus bell was generally made of silver, and occasionally a number of little bells were hung in the middle of the church, and by means of a wheel they were all made to ring at once.
"Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them"
Sidney Heath
The Credo closed and died away, the resonant harmonies of the Sanctus filled the wide space, and the knight, with the same devout attention, followed the sacred service in which, in the imagination of believers, the bread and wine is transformed into the body and blood of Christ, and a significant, painless ceremony represents the Saviour's bloody death upon the cross.
"In The Fire Of The Forge, Volume 5."
Georg Ebers