Talk:Saint Sebastian

message: I was reading "In Xanadu" by William Dalrymple and I found this:
According to Yule almost nothing is known about the historical St Blaise, except that he was the bishop of Sebaste (Roman Sivas) and that he was martyred during the persecutions of Diocletian.
In this section Dalrymple is describing some the history of Sivas - a town in Turkey about 250 kilometers west of the Euphrates.
Maybe St Bliase was St Sebastian, but that's another story. Would it be worth speculating that someone from Sebaste is a Sebastian? Sebaste was a roman town, Sebastian was a roman saint - is it worth putting 2 and 2 together?
:*I'm not sure it is. I'll admit that it sounds intriguing, but at this point, unless you can produce some published sources that show that this theory holds some currency, it's just speculation. It'd make a great topic of conversation over beer and a bag of crisps, but I'm not sure it should go into an encyclopedia. One rule that forbids this sort of thing, I think, is Wikipedia's prohibition against original research. While I don't think you're saying that this is research, my understanding is that this is something you yourself have noticed rather than something you read in a published work. Am I right about this, or have I misunderstood you? —CKA3KA (Skazka) 00:24, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: *There seems no way to insert into the taxobox that this Saint Sebastian is by Il Sodoma (Pitti Palace). You'd think it was just a wallet-card or something. Sebastianus is not a Roman cognomen: the derivation "from Sebaste" is not "original" at all, it's inescapable.  What else might 'Sebastianus", the Greek analogue of "Augusta" in numerous town names, mean? Which Sebaste: now, that would be original research! --Wetman 20:35, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Roots for the name

message: I don't have time to add it right now, but Sebastiane should probably be mentioned in this aritcle.  CaveatLectorTalk 09:32, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sebastiane 

message: How is the name pronounced?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.139.183.226 (talk • contribs) 22:58, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Why does Sebastian direct here, shouldn't it direct to the disambiguation. This might be the most popular of the Sebastian articles but it isn't technically a Sebastian article, people looking in on Sebastian shouldn't have to go through Saint Sebastian, I believe with a certain amount of certainity that most people looking for the Saint specifically will know enough to put Saint in front. People looking for Sebastian should not have to go through Christian mythology.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.137.207.191 (talk) 03:50, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Priorities 

message: I have a photo of a wood sculpture of St. Sebatian by Virgil Cantini, and I am not sure where it could go in this article. Maybe someone else can find a place for it: :Image:CantiniStSebastianHillmanLibrary.jpg.--Shizzy9989 (talk) 16:35, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added your image to the article, it is not the best job layout-wise but hopefully someone can improve that. Thank you. --ChaChaFut (talk) 03:01, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sebatian Wood Sculpture 

message: does anybody know what food they eat at the feast of San Sebastian de Yumbel in Chile? Thanks  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.70.239.184 (talk) 14:49, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does anybody know... 

message: Parking the trivia section here as it has been tagged since December 2007. Please do not move back without citations showing notability of the reference and working it into encyclopedic context. Toddst1 (talk) 11:18, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parking Trivia 

message: In the article as of this writing occurs this passage: "Saint Sebastian is officially the Patron saint of the city of [Chepén], La Libertad, in the north of Peru. On January 20 is the major festivities and celebrations of the citys dog." Not only is this unsourced it seems patently nonsensical. A celebration of the city's dog? Smells Like Teen Whackypedia. 68.229.185.85 (talk) 11:48, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed this. Carl.bunderson (talk) 20:09, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

text: Rvted - vandalism from 3 days ago, not fully reverted. 22:03, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The city's dog? Huh? 

message: Not sure if this is of any importance, but Thomas Mann included references to Saint Sebastian as a sort of icon of writers, for lack of a better way to put it, in "Death in Venice". 76.30.76.4 (talk) 03:04, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thomas Mann 

message: Many of the vandals here have not been properly reverted - this one and this one had been uncorrected here for nearly a year. Johnbod (talk) 16:42, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old vandalism 

message: "For reasons unknown, the left vein of Sebastian is always exposed." I've marked that with a "What?" and want to complain here that neither in anatomy nor in popular use does "left vein" have a meaning w/o further context. The sentence also isn't clear about whether it refers to Dali or to all Sebastian iconography. Nor, as I've also marked, does it have a cited source. GeorgeTSLC (talk) 16:49, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Added by anon in March 2007. See here. William Avery (talk) 17:56, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Left vein? 

message: Icons I could understand, but I think the word relic is being misued in the article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.3.64.1 (talk) 01:53, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: No, of course not, that is absurd. I will take that out. This article, like many others about saints, needs a lot of work, it does not clearly distinguish between what historical facts, if any, can be verified and what is "tradition" or legend. That sentence should not be in the lead, the lead is supposed to summarise the rest of the article, which does not talk about veneration of Sebastian by soldiers and athletes.Smeat75 (talk) 02:41, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Do you see the name of this section header Greengrounds? it says "do athletes really regularly carry his relics"? Do you know what "relics" are? The references you have supplied refer to Sebastian as the patron saint of sports, not that athletes regularly carry a bit of his anklebone or something into the arena with them. And please see WP:LEAD,"The lead should define the topic and summarize the body of the article", the lead should not talk about athletes carrying bones or bodily parts of a thousand year plus old saint into sports events with them unless that is discussed in the body of the article.Smeat75 (talk) 02:32, 5 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do athletes really regularly carry his relics? 

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replies: text: Oink chain VVVVV 2001:56A:FB2E:B300:BF17:CE3D:76D0:B51F (talk) 20:41, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
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message: Source or reasoning for such? Falls under athlete category but why specifically these drivers? 2600:387:C:2C12:0:0:0:1 (talk) 20:16, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Patron of Race Car Drivers?