Saint Sebastian Saint Sebastian. The belief that Saint Sebastian was a defense against the plague was a medieval addition to his reputation, which largely accounts for the enormous increase in his importance in the Late Middle Ages. The connection of the martyr shot with arrows with the plague is not an intuitive one, however. In Greco-Roman myth, Apollo, the archer god, at times destroys his enemies by shooting plague-arrows from the heavens, but is also the deliverer from pestilence; the figure of Sebastian Christianizes this folkloric association. Similar metaphors for divine displeasure occur in the Hebrew Bible. The hopeful example of Sebastian
Toronto Arrows Toronto Arrows The Toronto Arrows is a rugby union club based out of Toronto in Canada that in Major League Rugby as of 2019.. The Arrows team is an independent off-shoot of the Ontario Blues Rugby Football Club and is funded by a group of private investors and supporters. The team's home field is York Lions Stadium on the Keele Campus of York University. The team was founded as the Ontario Arrows in 2017 with the intent of joining the Major League Rugby competition for the 2019 season. The Arrows debuted September 9, 2017 in a match against the Glendale