St. Sebastian
was an officer in Rome in 283. Emperor Diocletian named him Commander of
the Praetorian Guard, unaware that he had became a Christian. Sebastian
sustained the courage of two imprisoned confessors, Mark and Marcellian,
as well as other Christian prisoners. He did not conceal his faith and
was arrested and sentenced to death by being shot with arrows. Irene, the
widow of St. Castulus the martyr, took the still breathing Sebastian to
a safe place and treated his wounds. Once cured, Sebastian defied the Emperor
once again; this time he was stoned. He is buried in a catacomb near Via
Appia. After Peter and Paul, Sebastian is the third patron of Rome.
He is also the patron saint of gunsmiths and is invoked against plague
and epilepsy. He is often depicted with an arrow, or arrows, in his body.
See: Antonello da Messina. St.
Sebastian.
Giovanni Bellini. St.
Sebastian.
Alessandro Botticelli St.
Sebastian,
Correggio Madonna
and Child with St. Sebastian.
Honore Daumier. Martyrdom
of St. Sebastian.
Georges de La Tour. St.
Sebastian Tended by St. Irene, St.
Sebastian Tended by St. Irene.
Lorenzo Lotto Wings
of a triptych: St. Sebastian (left); St. Christopher (right).
Andrea Mantegna. St.
Sebastian. St. Sebastian.
Hans Memling The
Resurrection, with the Martyrdom of St. Sebastian and the Ascension.
Pietro Perugino. St.
Sebastian, Madonna and Child
Enthroned with St. John the Baptist and St. Sebastian.
Piero della Francesca. St.
Sebastian and St. John the Baptist.
Raphael St.
Sebastian.
Jusepe de Ribera. St.
Sebastian, St. Irene, and St. Lucila.
Peter Paul Rubens St.
Sebastian.
Titian St.
Sebastian.
Cosme Tura. St.
Sebastian.
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