• This is a reliquary with a skull of St. Sebastian.

 

• St. Sebastian was an officer in the Praetorian Guard under Diocletian (284-305). Sentenced to death for being a Christian, the archers were ordered to shoot him. A widow Irene nursed him back to health and he again went before the emperor and was clubbed to death

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• Cardinal Giovanni Garzia Mellini was titular (1608-1627) and benefactor for the apse renovations. During the crypt renovations, he was said to have found the reliquary

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