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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.
"The Hand of St. Sebastian" is the eighth episode of the second season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It originally aired on the Fox network on November 14, 1997. The episode was written by Glen Morgan and James Wong , and directed by Thomas J. Wright .
Saint Sebastian became known as a protector against infectious diseases around the seventh century, when the city of Ravenna was hit by the plague and the city of Rome sent a relic of the Saint as a form of aid. Another possibility as to why this type of depiction was chosen, might be due to the similarities between the saint's wounds caused by ...
Saint Sebastian by El Greco (1578) in Cathedral of San Antolín, Palencia. Sebastian is one of the patron saints of the city of Qormi in Malta [45] Sebastian is the patron saint of Acireale, Caserta and Petilia Policastro in Italy, Melilli in Sicily, and San Sebastián as well as Palma de Mallorca, Lubrín and Huelva in Spain.
The relic consists of five narrow pieces of sycamore wood, which tradition holds to have been brought from the Holy Land either by Empress Helena (see 326–328 pilgrimage), or in the time of Pope Theodore I (642–649).
Sebastian had always been a popular saint to invoke against the plague, and depictions of him to some extent rose and fell with the pattern of epidemics. In every one of the years 1624–1629, Utrecht , the main Dutch centre of Catholic history painting , was hit by plague, and it was probably what killed Hendrick ter Brugghen in November 1629 ...
A third Sebastian arose in Spain: an Augustinian friar, Miguel dos Santos, who once had been a chaplain of Sebastian and confessor to Dom Antonio, and was ultimately confessor to the nunnery of Madrigal de las Altas Torres, Castile. He met there Gabriel de Espinosa, a baker, whose appearance recalled the person of Sebastian. Dos Santos ...
The only known relic of St. Olav in modern time is the Arm Relic, given by King Oscar I of Sweden and Norway to St. Olav’s Catholic Cathedral in Oslo in 1862. The relic, which is a human calf bone and not an arm bone, had then been kept in the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen since the late 17th century.