The writer spent his life cultivating beauty—on the page and in the mirror—only to end it with a samurai-style suicide. Both acts spoke to a long-standing obsession.

According to legend, St. Sebastian was born at Narbonne, in Gaul. He became a soldier in Rome and encouraged Marcellian and Marcus, who were sentence of death, to remain firm in their faith. St.

But the second was the feast of St. Sebastian, and this Diocletian martyr gives me a glimmer of hope for the future. Like that of early church martyrs, the veneration of Sebastian spread further ...

The St. Sebastian’s College, Moratuwa Cadet Platoon marked its 40th anniversary with grandeur and pride on Friday, celebrating four decades of discipline, dedication, and remarkable ...

A painting bought at a garage sale in Minnesota is a previously unknown portrait by Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh, according to a newly published expert analysis. It was made by Van Gogh during ...

refuses it, whereupon Francis—the anti-alchemist, King Midas in reverse, turning gold back to base metal—casts the money scornfully aside, “valuing it,” as Saint Bonaventure wrote in his ...

Indian River County Emergency Services Department officials said residents might see smoke and ash from the 566-acre prescribed burn at the St. Sebastian River Preserve State Park. The burn was ...

Bowie, in particular, was heavily influenced by Mishima’s performative approach to art and existence. Bowie name-checked Mishima in the lyrics of one of his last songs and famously slept under a ...

Sebastian Stan has won his first Golden Globe, taking home the trophy for best actor in a musical or comedy for “A Different Man.” In his speech, Stan implored viewers to account for social ...

Near the day of the city's patron saint, the statue of Saint Sebastian, in Glória ... is the Reward of São Sebastião (1898), an oil painting by Eliseu Visconti that won a gold medal at the ...

A self-declared former "wild child" and actress from Northern Ireland is on her way to becoming a saint following her death almost nine years ago. On Sunday, Jan. 12, a special ceremony marking ...