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The St. Sebastian River in the American state of Florida is named after him. The river is a tributary of the Indian River Lagoon and comprises part of the boundary between Indian River County and Brevard County. The adjacent city of Sebastian, Florida, and St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park are also named for Saint Sebastian. [53]
St. Sebastian, the patron saint of ... Not much is known for certain about St. Sebastian, an early Christian martyr, but his life story has been shared and admired for millennia.
Saint Sebastian is a painting of the eponymous Christian saint by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, executed before January 1474 when it was endowed to the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Florence.
Luca Giordano, c. 1653. National Gallery of Victoria.. One of the earliest paintings of Sebastian being nursed is by Josse Lieferinxe in about 1497, part of a cycle from an altarpiece in Marseilles (now Philadelphia Museum of Art), [6] but the subject was rare until the 17th century, and treated as part of a series of Sebastian's life.
Saint Sebastian is a 1610–1614 oil on canvas painting by El Greco, the last of his three portrayals of Saint Sebastian.It survives in two large fragments, both of which are in the Prado Museum; the top half was donated by the Countess of Mora y Aragón in 1959 and the lower half was acquired in 1987.
The Louvre's Saint Sebastian was once part of the Altar of San Zeno in Verona.In the late 17th to early 18th centuries it was recorded in the Sainte Chapelle of Aigueperse, in the Auvergne region of France: its presence there is related to the marriage of Chiara Gonzaga, daughter of Federico I of Mantua, with Gilbert de Bourbon, Dauphin d'Auvergne (1486).
For example, a relic of St. Sebastian, who lived circa 255 to 288 AD, is in the altar of his namesake church in Akron and there’s another of Padre Pio (1887-1968) in the back of the church.
“I don’t just want this to be a sad sex worker story,” Max declares about his novel in a later scene, arguing with his publisher. The danger of spinning a hack cautionary tale seems at the ...