Category: saints and their characteristics

• She is holding her breasts on a plate…another martyr.

This young woman is holding a palm because she was a martyr and a pair of eyes because her torturers blinded her.

She is a saint for Catholics and she sometimes plays the lute, sometimes the organ

He got 8 of these, the story goes, as a martyr.

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Saint Sebastian (died c. 288) was an early Christian saint and martyr. It is said that he was killed during the Roman emperor Diocletian‘s persecution of Christians. He is commonly depicted in art and literature tied to a post or tree and shot with arrows.

Think of the Vatican…What does it open ? Read the following text :

Popular culture

Over the years “St. Peter” has evolved into a stock character that is now widely used in jokes, cartoons, comedies, dramas, and plays. Such caricatures almost all play upon Peter’s role as the “keeper of the keys of the kingdom of heaven” inMatthew 16:19, on the basis of which he is often depicted as an elderly, bearded man who sits at the pearly gates that serve as heaven’s main entrance, often portrayed as a sort of hotel-style doorman / bouncer who personally interviews prospective entrants into Heaven, often seated behind a desk, or standing at a lectern. He usually has a big book in which the names of the saved are written.