According to legend, St. Sebastian was born at Narbonne in Gaul. He became a soldier in Rome and encouraged Marcellian and Marcus who were sentence to death to remain firm in their faith. St.

(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 ...

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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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 ...

Saint Sebastian (died c. 288) was an early Christian saint and martyr. It is said that he was killed during the Roman emperor Diocletian's persecution of Christians. He is commonly depicted in art and ...

As Harvard University undergoes the process of returning some of the thousands of Indigenous human remains in its possession to those with cultural, ancestral, or religious ties to them, one Catholic ...

MIDDLETOWN >> As the Feast of St. Sebastian approaches its 600th year across the Atlantic Ocean, the local church named for the Christian martyr is looking forward to its 92nd celebration. St.