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🙌 NEW BLOG POST by The Seeker's Quill: The Targeted and the Target: Saint Sebastian

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There is a peculiar irony in the way that history chooses to remember its heroes. We build statues of generals on horseback, though most of their work was done in tents surrounded by maps. We paint kings in ermine robes, though they spent most of their reigns in considerably less formal attire. And we remember Saint Sebastian as the man who died pierced with arrows, though this was not, in fact, how he died at all. The arrows were merely an interruption to his story, a dramatic pause before the final act. He survived the arrows. It was the clubs that killed him.

This is, when you think about it, rather typical of the way God writes His stories. Just when we think we have understood the plot, He adds another twist. Just when we have settled into a comfortable interpretation, He reveals that we have been reading the wrong chapter. The world looked at Sebastian tied to a post, bristling with arrows like some terrible human pincushion, and said, "Ah, this is how the story ends." But the story had other ideas. The story, it turns out, was just getting interesting.

The Soldier Who Became a Target

To understand the magnificent absurdity of Sebastian's life, we must first understand his position. He was not some obscure peasant who stumbled into martyrdom by accident, nor was he a foreign missionary arriving in Rome with Christ on his lips and a death wish in his heart. He was, of all improbable things, a captain of the Praetorian Guard, the elite soldiers who protected the Roman emperor himself. He was, in other words, a man who had positioned himself at the very heart of the power that was trying to destroy what he secretly served.

Here is a paradox that would have delighted the ancient philosophers: the man whose job was to protect the emperor from threats was himself the greatest threat the emperor would never see coming. Not a threat of assassination or political intrigue, mind you, but something far more dangerous. Sebastian was planting seeds of eternity in the gardens of empire, and empires do not much care for plants they did not authorize.

It is worth pausing to consider the sheer audacity of this arrangement. Sebastian did not merely attend church on Sundays and keep his head down during the week. He actively converted his fellow soldiers to Christianity, comforted those awaiting martyrdom, and used his position of privilege to smuggle the faith into places where the emperor thought it could never reach. He was, in effect, a divine double agent, wearing the armor of Rome while fighting for the Kingdom of Heaven.....CLICK THE LINK ABOVE TO CONTINUE READING

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