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
Killed by Death (albums) comp." By the end of 1989 Kugelberg's Redrum Records' had released the first four volumes of "Killed By Death", after which a fifth and sixth "Killed By Death" emerged in 1993, issued by an Australian record collector. Over 30 subsequent volumes of "Killed By Death" were released during the 1990s, all assembled by various anonymous compilers and released independently of one another. This resulted in the records' diversion from any strict numbering system as no one could predict where and when a particular volume of "Killed By Death" would hit the streets. Many volumes of "Killed By Death" were limited