There are two important criteria that make St. Christopher a “second-tier” plague saint: arrows from his martyrdom and a popular inscription. As seen in his Vita,…

So this trip was a bit of a balancing act because Will and I were traveling with my mom, dad, sister & her boyfriend. I was…

Although St. Christopher is no longer on the Church’s official liturgical calendar, because of evidence that he may not have actually existed, he was popular in…

See previous thesis post: Pestilence & Prayers: St. Sebastian in Art (6) A variation of the sacra conversazione formula is the Madonna della Misericordia (Madonna of…

See previous thesis post: Pestilence & Prayer: Madonna della Misericordia (7) The final type of St Sebastian’s plague art is Sebastian directly interceding on behalf a town…

See previous thesis blog post: Pestilence & Prayer: Vita of St. Sebastian Works of art that include active shooters evoke the connection Sebastian has to the arrows…