Imagery IV – FIGURES I - San Sebastian I

The details of Sebastian's martyrdom were first elaborated by Ambrose 0f Milan (died 397), in his sermon (number XX) on the 118th Psalm. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, states that Sebastian came from Milan and that he was already venerated there in the 4th century.

According to Sebastian's fifth-century Acta, still attributed to Ambrose by the 17th-century hagiographer Jean Bolland, he was a soldier who enlisted in the Roman army around 283. Diocletian, unaware that he was a Christian, appointed him as a captain of the Praetorian Guard.

SAN SEBASTIANO
G. Giorgetti
I saw it in Rome at my first trip to Europe (1981)
you also can see it at Basilica di San Sebastiano