Saint Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene (Hendrick ter Brugghen) in the Diocletianic Persecution, has the soldier Sebastian shot by archers as punishment for his treason. Looking for his body to bury, Irene found Saint Sebastian tied to a tree and miraculously alive, then nursed him back to health. Rather than painting the scene of Sebastian being shot with arrows, in the midst of his attempted execution, Ter Brugghen chooses to show the moments afterwards where Irene and her maid untie him from the tree. Some attribute this narrative shift to the emergence of the plague within Utrecht in the 1620s: several artists desiring a subject saved from agony, turn
Flint Arrows Flint Arrows The Flint Arrows were a professional Single A baseball team in Flint, Michigan from 1940-41 and 1948–1951 and played their home games at Atwood Stadium. The Arrows were an affiliate of the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians. A previous Flint Arrows ball team operated in 1940-1941 in the Class C Michigan State League as an affiliate of the Cleveland Indians. The 1948-1951 Arrows were a member of the Central League. Their overall record was 169-102, and they won the Central League Championship in 1948 and 1950. With the 1951 riots in Baltimore creating tension, Flint was noted by