Also at Rome, ad Catacumbas, St. Sebastian, Martyr, who was in command of the first cohort under the Emperor Diocletian, was ordered to be bound in the middle of a plain, with the title of Christian over his head, and shot with arrows by the soldiers, and lastly to be scourged with rods till he died.
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Mosaic of St. Sebastian, ca. 682 in San Pietro in Vincoli