HOLLIS Primo keyword search 'Passio sancti Sebastiani' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Passio%20sancti%20Sebastiani&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 returns no record, and the English-oriented search 'Acts of Saint Sebastian English translation' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Acts%20of%20Saint%20Sebastian%20English%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 returns only unrelated items (a Syriac martyrdom of Phokas and an early modern possession narrative). The one English rendering that does exist is indirect: Aelfric's Old English abbreviation of the Sebastian legend, listed as 'Saint Sebastian' in the contents of Old English Lives of Saints, Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 58-60 (Cambridge, Mass., 2019), which supplies a modern English translation of the Old English rather than of the Latin passio (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Old%20English%20lives%20of%20saints%20Aelfric&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 No modern English translation of the Latin Passio sancti Sebastiani was located, and no volume in the standard series whose catalogues were searched carries it.
The Sebastian passio is one of the Roman 'gesta martyrum' that invented the soldier-martyr type and gave the Roman militia a Christian hero; it also underlies the plague-arrows iconography and the Archers' guild cult. English readers meet Sebastian only through Aelfric's abbreviation or the Golden Legend, both of which cut the Latin narrative's Roman administrative detail and its dialogue.
| Edition / series |
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| Old English Lives of Saints · Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library 58-60 · (modern English translation of Aelfric's Old English) · 2019 |
| Record | Citation |
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| Lugano Passion | Luini, Bernardo 1475-1533, Italian. "Lugano Passion." 1529. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/via/olvwork123362/catalog |
| The Oxford handbook of early Christian studies | "The Oxford handbook of early Christian studies." Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990115442600203941 |
| Holy women of the Syrian Orient | Brock, Sebastian P. "Holy women of the Syrian Orient." Berkeley : University of California Press, c1987. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99153550224503941 |
| Holy women of the Syrian Orient | "Holy women of the Syrian Orient." Berkeley : University of California Press, 1998, c1987. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990077005150203941 |
| Holy Women of the Syrian Orient | Brock/Harvey. "Holy Women of the Syrian Orient." Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1988]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/99158718685103941 |