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 the "Sporting News" as being one of five ball teams that had games with single digit attendance. When the Arrows started playing in Flint in as a Detroit Tigers minor league affiliate in the Central League, their manager was Jack Tighe. The league scheduled a 140-game season in 1948. The August 26, 1949 home game with Grand Rapids had a fight break out with catcher Frank House being suspended indefinitely. The Arrows lost their Tiger affiliation in 1950 after the end of the season despite winning the league championship with an 80 to 53 record. The team's home run leader