The Catholic church has come a long way since Saint Sebastian volunteered to comfort early Christians awaiting martyrdom and become one himself. In art, Sebastian is the one tied up and shot with a ...

To me, it seems that Christian art often reaches two very different ends of a spectrum. For example, masterpieces such as “Coronation of the Virgin” by Diego Velázquez or “The Creation of Adam” by ...

Claude Debussy wrote incidental music for an irreverent 1911 play by Gabriele D'Annunzio called The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian. The play enraged the Archbishop of Paris; D'Annunzio cast ballerina Ida ...

For Santo Salafia, news that the statue of St. Sebastian will come here in May from his hometown of Melilli, Sicily, is not a surprise. It is a miracle. “St. Sebastian is for us, like . . . I can’t ...

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Members of the Claretian Youth group from the Archdiocese of San Juan, Puerto Rico, pray before entering St. Sebastian Street Feast hours after a shooting at the four-day event in Old San Juan Jan. 21 ...

Catholics in Sri Lanka are celebrating the reception of a reliquary containing a fragment of the arm of St. Sebastian, a martyr of the third century. On Jan. 12, Cardinal Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith of ...

(RNS) From Christian martyr to sports icon, St. Sebastian is the patron saint of athletes and of Rio de Janeiro. The ’Splainer (as in, “You’ve got some ’splaining to do”) is an occasional feature in ...