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title: SAINT SEBASTIAN MARTYR

subject date: 2016-12-13

caption: SAN SEBASTIAN (256-288) high Roman imperial army officer under Diocletian, brought up in Christianity, usufruì his position to recruit followers in the ranks, and to comfort and to bury the Christian martyrs. Discovered in his activities he was sentenced to death and pierced by innumerable arrows on the Palatine hill, and here abandoned to the fairs by his executioners who thought he was dead. Relief and healed from Santa Irene, the emperor returned to proclaim the Christian faith, and was again sentenced to flogging in the hippodrome in Palatine until the occurrence of death, only to be thrown into the Cloaca Maxima. Revered as a saint by the Catholic Church and the Christian Orthodox Church, it is the subject of an ancient cult. Commemorating the day of death (Dies Natalis, birth into heaven) on January 20. colored engraving, Italy 1886

category: HIS

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country: Italia

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continent: Europa

image century : XIX

image epoch: Ottocento

subject century: III

subject epoch: Paleocristiano

technique: Incisione colorata

id: 39714

file name: FSNgilardi_71320.jpg

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palatineAncient RomeRomereliefintegritytestfaithofferingEarly ChristianChristianityreligiondartarrowTorturetorturemartyrdommartyrSan SebastianSanta IreneSant'IrenecharityfictionGallieni E.antiquities