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Old Painting Beginning Of The Eighteenth Century. San Sebastiano

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OLD PAINTING EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. SAN SEBASTIANO Beautiful representation of the martyr SAN SEBASTIANO OIL ON CANVAS 143 X 98 CM Saint Sebastian (Narbona, 256 - Rome, January 20, 288) was a Roman soldier, martyr for having supported the Christian faith; Venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church and the Christian Orthodox Church, he was the object of ancient worship. San Sebastian lived when the empire was ruled by Diocletian. Oriundo di Narbona and educated in Milan, he was educated in the principles of the Christian faith. He then went to Rome, where he came into contact with the military circle directly dependent on the emperors. Having become a high officer in the imperial army, he made a first career and was the commander of the prestigious first praetorian court, stationed in Rome for the defense of the emperor. In this context, thanks to his role, he was able to support imprisoned Christians, provide for the burial of martyrs and spread Christianity among court officials and soldiers, taking advantage of his imperial office. The story goes that one day two young Christians, Marco and Marcelliano, sons of a certain Tranquillino, were arrested by order of the Prefect Chromatius. The father appealed for a thirty day time limit for the trial, to persuade the children to renounce and escape the sentence by sacrificing to the gods. The brothers were now on the verge of giving in when Sebastiano visited them, persuading them to persevere in their faith and heroically conquer death. As he spoke to them, the face of the rostrum was beamed with a miraculous light that astonished those present, including Zoe, the wife of Nicostratus, head of the Imperial Chancellery, who had been silent for six years. The woman prostrated herself at the foot of the tribune which, invoking divine grace, placed her hands on her lips and made the sign of the cross, giving her her voice again. Sebastiano's prodigy led to the conversion of a large number of people present: Zoe with her husband Nicostrato and her brother-in-law Castorio, the Roman prefect Cromazio and his son Tiburzio. Chromatius gave up his post of prefect and retired with other Christian converts to his villa in Campania. The son, on the other hand, remained in Rome where he suffered martyrdom; then, one by one, the other neo-Christians also died for having embraced the new religion: Marco and Marcelliano found themselves pierced by spears, their father Tranquillino stoned, Zoe hung by the hair on a tree and roasted. When Diocletian, who deeply hated the faithful of Christ, discovered that Sebastian was a Christian, he exclaimed: "I have always kept you among the elders of my palace and you have worked in the shadows against me."; Sebastiano was therefore sentenced to death by him. He was tied to a stake at a site on Palatine Hill, stripped naked, and pierced with so many arrows all over his body that he looked like a porcupine. The soldiers, seeing him die and pierced with darts, believed him dead and abandoned him on the spot so that his flesh could feed the wild beasts; but this was not the case, and Saint Irene of Rome, who went to retrieve his body to give him the burial, realized that the soldier was still alive, so she transported him to her home on the Palatine and began to kill him. to heal many wounds with devotion. Sebastiano, miraculously cured, despite his friends advising him to leave the city, decided to proclaim his faith in the presence of the emperor who had inflicted the torture on him. The saint courageously joined Diocletian and his associate Maximian, who presided over the functions in the temple erected by Heliogabalus, in honor of the Invictive Sun, later dedicated to Hercules, and blamed them for the persecutions against Christians. Surprised at the sight of his soldier still alive, Diocletian coldly ordered that Sebastiano be flogged to death, a punishment which was executed in 304 in the Palatine hippodrome, then threw his body in the Cloaca Maxima. In its race towards the Tiber, the body became entangled near the church of San Giorgio al Velabro, where it was collected by the matron Lucina who transported it to the catacombs of the Via Appia and buried there .

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