The artist offers a fresh take on martyrdom in his bold National Gallery project inspired by the Christian martyr and Derek ...

For dawn commuters crossing Trafalgar Square in central London on a chilly autumn morning, it must have been a curious sight: ...

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 ...

Guido Reni, Saint Sebastian (1615). Courtesy of the Capitoline Museum, Rome. How did a third-century Catholic saint become a contemporary gay icon referenced on everything from the covers of men’s ...

Not much is known for certain about St. Sebastian, an early Christian martyr, but his life story has been shared and admired for millennia. He was referred to as a saint long before the official ...

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.

Was Saint Sebastian gay? History is actually iffy on the subject. But the celebrated, martyred Christian is sometimes referred to as ”a homosexual icon,” in large part because he helped foster ...