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St. Sebastian—Botticelli, 1474. Sebastian was “a servant of God,” and a soldier with a mission. He felt God had called him to the military to evangelize and to help soldiers like the twin brothers, Marcus and Marcellinus, who were sentenced to death because of their faith in Christ. The boys’ heathen parents and friends had come to the ...
30 de dez. de 2022 · When Diocletian and Maximian began a Persecution against the Christians, Saint Sebastian was arrested and pierced with sharp arrows, and the bones of his body were shattered with clubs; and being cut into pieces, he gave up his spirit to God in the year 288. Together with him there were others also who died while enduring various tortures.
Golden Legend: Life of Saint Sebastian. S t. Sebastian was a man of great faith, a good Christian man, and was born in Narbonne, and after taught and endoctrined in the city of Milan, and was so well beloved of Diocletian and Maximian, emperors of Rome, that they made him master and duke of their meiny household and power, and always would have ...
Saint Sebastian. Saint Sebastian (traditionally died January 20, 287) was a Christian saint and martyr, who is said to have died during the Diocletian persecution in the late 3rd century. Though Sebastian's characterization is marred by a notable paucity of biographical details, a fanciful version of his Acta was composed in the fifth century ...
Saint Sebastian. 1610 - 1614. Oil on canvas. According to ancient traditions collected by Jacobus de Voragine in his Legenda Aurea (1264), Saint Sebastian was a third-century Roman soldier who served in the Praetorian Guard, one of the most prestigious units of the imperial army, at the time when the emperor Diocletian was actively persecuting ...
St. Sebastian is the patron saint of athletes because of his energetic evangelization. He was a soldier in the Roman army, and shared his faith with his fellow soldiers and converted many of them before he was sentenced to death by the Emperor Diocletian. Sebastian was shot with arrows and left to die alone; however, a Christian woman found him ...
