Saint Sebastian

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In 1350, an enormous number of people flocked to the monastery of St. Peter at Hennegau when discovered there was relics of St. Sebastian in a shrine there.

As a protector from the bubonic plague, Sebastian was formerly one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.

Sebastian, like Saint George, was one of a class of military martyrs and soldier saints of the Early Christian Church whose cults originated in the 4th century and culminated at the end of the Middle Ages, in the 14th and 15th centuries both in the East and the West. Details of their martyrologies may provoke some skepticism among modern readers, but certain consistent patterns emerge that are revealing of Christian attitudes. In Catholicism, Sebastian is the patron saint of Archers and of a holy death.