Remembered on December 18
Sebastian and his companions
- MartyrA saint who was killed for bearing witness to Christ.
All martyrs
Sebastian and his companions are remembered among Rome’s Christians during the late third-century persecutions. Their traditional life describes him encouraging prisoners to remain faithful. The Church keeps their names together, remembering both those who suffered and the courage they gave one another.
How they died
Tradition holds that Sebastian was shot with arrows and beaten to death; Zoe died from smoke; Tranquillinus was stoned; Nicostratus, Claudius and Castor were drowned; Tiburtius was beheaded; Castulus died in a pit; and Mark and Marcellinus were killed with spears.
- Feast day
- December 18
Parishes on the Old Calendar keep it on December 31. - Kind of saint
- Martyr
Life written by Simply Orthodox; quote freely with a link.