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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]
Severus (or Secundius), Severian(us), Carpophorus, and Victorinus were martyred at Rome or Castra Albana, according to Christian tradition. [2]According to the Passion of Saint Sebastian, the four saints were soldiers (specifically cornicularii, or clerks, in charge of all the regiment's records and paperwork) who refused to sacrifice to Aesculapius, and therefore were killed by order of ...
Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, 1498; The Martyrdom of St Sebastian, 1505; St Sebastian (Perugino, São Paulo), c 1505, copy of the last; Saint Sebastian (Titian, Hermitage), 1570-72; Saint Sebastian (El Greco, 1576–1579) or simply Saint Sebastian, 1576–1579; Saint Sebastian (El Greco, 1610–1614), Prado; St Sebastian, c. 1614
Not much is known for certain about St. Sebastian, an early Christian martyr, but his life story has been shared and admired for millennia. He was referred to as a saint long before the official ...
The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci showing the martyrdom of Saint Sebastian. It was rediscovered in Paris in March 2016, classed as a "trésor national" and presented to the press on 10 January 2017. Its auction estimate was 15,000,000 Euros and initially it was placed under an export ban in June 2017 to give ...
Saint Zoe of Rome (died c. 286) was a noblewoman, married to Nicostratus, a high Roman court official. For six years she had been unable to speak. Saint Sebastian made the sign of the cross over the woman, and she immediately began to speak and she glorified Jesus. [1] Zoe asked for baptism. [2]
There is a painting of the Ariosto subject by Simone Peterzano, who died in 1599, but most treatments of both subjects come from the same broad period after about 1620 as those of Sebastian and Irene. The compositions where Sebastian remains semi-upright as the women untie him inevitably recall the subject of the Descent from the Cross of ...
Figures from around the boxing world and beyond have paid tribute to Sebastian, who died just days before his 30th birthday.