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B-day regards from P Jay

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St. Sebastian

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HOMO-EROTICISM AND CHRISTIANITYChristian saints don't make the cover of gay magazines every day even less so in a slick of baby oil and a pair of Calvins. But such was the case with last July's issue of reFRESH London magazine, the saint in question being played by French policeman-turned-TV-hunk, Sebastien Moura.The only saint who really cuts it as a cover-boy is St Sebastian that curly-haired Roman youth shot with arrows. St Sebastian's appeal to gay men seems obvious. He was young, male, unmarried and martyred by the establishment. Unlike St Augustine of Hippo, he also looks good in a loincloth and tied to a tree. Never was St Sebastian more winsome than in the seven versions of him painted by Guido Reni, six of which go on show at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. I showed the six in this video after Moura.While looking at these, let's rewind for a moment. Follow me to Rome to the Church of San Pietro in Vincoli, not far from San Sebastiano Fuori le Mura, where the martyr's punctured remains have lain since the year 287 AD. In a niche to the left, is the seventh-century mosaic of a middle-aged man, bearded and in Byzantine court dress. Given the church's name, you might take him for St Peter, but no: The saint is Sebastian, although he clearly will not see 40 again and there isn't an arrow in sight. What's going on? Well, St Sebastian is proof that if saints didn't exist, we would have to invent them. Thanks to the arrows, he's the one martyr in art everyone can spot. (Iconography is so unfair. Who now recognizes St Stephen's stones or St Lawrence's griddle?) A twinky torso also helps. Yet, according to his hagiographer, Ambrose of Milan, St Sebastian was a red-blooded captain in the Praetorian Guard, a centurion: he is the patron saint of soldiers and athletes, not hairdressers. Far from riling Diocletian by proselytizing for same-sex love, he was clubbed to death and thrown into the sewers for converting Romans to Christianity.None of this, though, explains the saint's transformation in paintings from a Byzantine bear daddy to a Baroque twink. Here, Reni was only a follower of fashion. Piero della Francesca's Misericordia polyptych, painted two centuries earlier, already shows Sebastian as young, willowy and lightly rouged. Why?In 1348, Europe had been ravaged by the Black Death: half of the entire population of the continent died. In their terror, Romans prayed to St Sebastian he'd survived those arrows, after all and the epidemic lifted. Willy-nilly, he became the hottest plague saint in Christ-endom. It is incumbent upon plague saints to look as though they haven't got one foot in the grave (or, come to that, in the sewer). So by the end of the 14th century, the middle-aged Sebastian had had a makeover, his beard, wrinkles and actual cause of death neatly airbrushed from the picture. Even so, it is something of a leap from the canvases of Reni to the cover of reFRESH magazine. Obvious answers to the question of just why Sebastian should have spent the past 400 years as gay saint du jour don't seem to add up. There are as many explanations for his appeal as there are people doing the explaining.

The Passion of Jesus Christ _ A Call To The Martyrs

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Martyr - Speechless (Cover)

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A Tour At Intellectual Martyrs Memorial Ep 03.wmv

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A Tour At Intellectual Martyrs Memorial (Shahid Buddhijibi Smriti Soudho) In Winter