martyrs

February 5, 2017
The feast day of St. Agatha (231-251) is celebrated on 5 February.

January 22, 2017
The joint feast day of Saint Vincent of Saragossa, executed by Roman Emperor Diocletian in 304, and Saint Anastasius of Persia, a Christian convert killed in 628, is celebrated on 22 January.

May 4, 2014
Polyptych with the Crucifixion and Saints Nicholas, Bartholomew, Florentius, and Luke , about 1315–20.

September 17, 2013
Sculptor Stefano Maderno died on this day in Rome in 1636.

September 12, 2013
The Getty: Andrea Mantegna, St. Sebastian (c. 1456 – 1459), tempera on panel, 30 x 68 cm.