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“venerated”
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01 / Meaning & origin
Sebastianus is a masculine given name documented in Dutch and Latin. French Wiktionary gives the meaning “venerated”.
Meaning: “venerated”
Dérivé du grec ancien σεβαστός, sebastos (« vénéré ») qui traduit augustus.
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SEBASTIANUS— “venerable”
Subsequently to this arrangement no one would have dared to assume the name so intimately connected with the jealous wearers of the purple; and, accordingly, it was a contemporary of the joint emperors, who is the martyr-saint of this name—Sebastianus, a soldier at Rome, who, when other Christians fled, remained there to encourage the flock in the first outburst of the last persecution. He endured a double martyrdom; first, by the well-known shower of arrows directed against…
Subsequently to this arrangement no one would have dared to assume the name so intimately connected with the jealous wearers of the purple; and, accordingly, it was a contemporary of the joint emperors, who is the martyr-saint of this name—Sebastianus, a soldier at Rome, who, when other Christians fled, remained there to encourage the flock in the first outburst of the last persecution. He endured a double martyrdom; first, by the well-known shower of arrows directed against him; and next, after his recovery under the care of a pious widow, who had carried away his supposed corpse to bury it, he defied the emperor again, and was beaten to death in the arena by clubs.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part III, Chapter V (Christian Greek Names), Section VII (Royal Names) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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