Before revision: Trophime Bigot, 1620–1634, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Bordeaux Marco Antonio Bassetti, c. 1620 Though Sebastian is famously tied to a tree or post and shot with many arrows, in his story he always survives this, only to be killed with stones some time later;de Voragine, p. 108: "Then Diocletian made him to be brought into prison into his palace, and to beat him so sore with stones till he died" these ordeals are sometimes called his " second " and " first martyrdom".
After revision: Trophime Bigot, 1620–1634, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, Bordeaux Marco Antonio Bassetti, c. 1620 Though Sebastian is famously tied to a tree or post and shot with many arrows, in his story he always survives this, only to be killed with stones some time later;de Voragine, p. 108: "Then Diocletian made him to be brought into prison into his palace, and to beat him so sore with stones till he died" these ordeals are sometimes called his " first " and " second martyrdom".