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You start this visit in a small museum focused on ancient sarcophagi (information in Italian and English). Then you go with a guide through the catacombs, which once contained the remains of Saint Sebastian (now housed in the church above) and several other martyrs, and which at one time also (according to legend) held the relics of Saints Peter and Paul.
Rome. San Sebastiano fuori le mura (Saint Sebastian beyond the Walls), or San Sebastiano ad Catacumbas (Saint Sebastian at the Catacombs), is a minor basilica in Rome, Central Italy. Up to the Great Jubilee of 2000, San Sebastiano was one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome, and many pilgrims still favour the traditional list (not least ...
24/05/2023. Il museo pubblico più antico del mondo, fondato nel 1471 da Sisto IV con la donazione al popolo romano dei grandi bronzi lateranensi, si articola nei due edifici che insieme al Palazzo Senatorio delimitano la piazza del Campidoglio, il Palazzo dei Conservatori e il Palazzo Nuovo.
The Basilica of St Sebastian Outside the Walls owes its name to the fact that it was located outside the city’s walls built by the Emperor Aurelian. This church is also known as the Basilica of Saint Sebastian near the Catacombs. This basilica is often referred to by the Italian name: San Sebastiano Fuori le Mura.
Description. The basilica of San Sebastiano fuori le mura (Saint Sebastian outside the Walls) is dedicated today to this popular – and frequently represented – saint from Narbonne, but was originally known as the basilica apostolorum. It rises at the third mile of the Via Appia Antica on the spot where by tradition the bodies of the ...
Only in the 4 th century did the catacombs take the current name which derives from the name of the Saint placed here after his death (298). The young Sebastian had preferred to suffer the tortures of the arrows rather than abjure the Christian faith, but not having died, he had challenged the Emperor Diocletian as soon as he had recovered his strength.
This panel of unknown provenance was first documented in connection with the Borghese Collection in c. 1633. Indeed, an inventory believed to be from that year contains the description of ‘a work on panel of Saint Sebastian tied to a tree riddled with arrows, with a carved, gilded frame, 4⅓ high 2½ wide, Pietro Perugino’.
