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	Patron Saints Index: Saint Sebastian
		Charged as a Christian, Sebastian was tied to a tree, shot with arrows, and left for dead.
		During the 14th century, the random nature of infection with the Black Death caused people to liken the plague to their villages being shot by an army of nature's archers.
		In desparation they prayed for the intercession of a saint associated with archers, and Saint Sebastian became associated with the plague.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/saints03.htm (151 words)

	St. Sebastian's Festival, Arthunkal Church
		SAINT SEBASTIAN, Martyr 304 A.D. St. Sebastian was born at Narbonne, in Gaul, but his parents were of Milan, in Italy, and he was brought up in that city.
		Saint Sebastian was venerated at Milan as early as the time of Saint Ambrose and was buried on the Appian Way.
		Saint Sebastian is the patron saint of athletes because of his physical endurance and his energetic way of spreading and defending the Catholic Faith.
	arthunkal.bizhat.com /st_sebastian.html (914 words)

	Saint Sebastian - LoveToKnow 1911
		ST SEBASTIAN, a Christian martyr whose festival is celebrated on the 10th of January.
		According to St Ambrose (in Psalm 118, oct. 20) Sebastian was a native of Milan, went to Rome at the height of Diocletian's persecution, and there suffered martyrdom.
		It was on this spot, on the Appian way, that was built the basilica of St Sebastian, which was a popular place of pilgrimage in the middle ages.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Saint_Sebastian (377 words)

	Saint Sebastian Essay
		Sebastian refused and was taken outside the city, tied to a tree, shot with arrows, and left for dead.
		Sebastian serves as the protector from plague and the patron saint of archers, athletes, and soldiers.
		Saint Sebastian was, aside from Christ on the Cross, the only legitimate opportunity for a painter living in a Christian society to exercise his or her skill in painting a male nude.
	www.marquette.edu /haggerty/collections/sebas.html (709 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Subjects of the Visual Arts: St. Sebastian
		The case of Saint Sebastian, who was martyred in 287, animates several complex questions about the evolution of a gay idol, not the least of which is his so-called appropriation from the hallowed pages of Church history and martyrology to the visual, literary, and filmic works of numerous gay artists.
		Renaissance representations of Saint Sebastian--mostly paintings of a tender, loin-clothed youth writhing in the ecstasy of the arrows that pierce him--are perhaps ground zero for his appointment as the patron saint of gay sensuality.
		Both the story of Sebastian and his subsequent role in modern gay cultures epitomize this subversive impulse: Sebastian revels in the pleasure of his own martyrdom as gay men revel in gazing upon an off-limits emblem of Christian holiness.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/subjects_st_sebastian.html (933 words)

	St Sebastian
		It was a contest of zeal, out of a mutual desire of martyrdom, between St. Sebastian and the priest Polycarp, which of them should accompany this troop, to complete their instruction, and which should remain in the city to encourage and assist the martyrs, which latter was the more dangerous province.
		Sebastian, having sent so many martyrs to heaven before him, was himself impeached before the Emperor Diocletian, who, having grievously reproached him with ingratitude, delivered him over to certain archers of Mauritania, to be shot to death.
		Sebastian, Gregory, and Medard were plundered by the Calvinists in 1564, and the sacred bones thrown into a ditch, in which there was water.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/SEBASTN.htm (901 words)

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