Because I just had to share

[pica_scribit]

Last night I was researching names for a character, and I think I have almost settled on the name "Sebastian" for the saint of the same name, since there's some vaguely appropriate symbolism there. As I was reading through the Wikipedia article on the saint, I came across this note:

In 1976, the British director Derek Jarman made a film,

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[brighty18]

I would totally watch that!

And isn't St. Sebastian like protection from the Plague, too? Interesting.

[pica_scribit]

As a protector from the bubonic plague, Sebastian was formerly one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (until the suppression of that cult in 1969). The connection of the martyr shot with arrows with the plague is not an intuitive one. In Greco-Roman myth, Apollo, the archer-god is the deliverer of pestilence; the figure of Sebastian Christianizes this familiar literary trope. The chronicler Paul the Deacon relates that Rome was freed from a raging pestilence in 680, by the patronage of this saint.

I'm now reading the article on Jarman, the director, and I'm thinking I need to see all of his films.