St. Sebastian and Mithras: A Suggestion

Cult of St. Sebastian in Istria.

Sebastian is only one of the many saints honored in the Catholic world and invoked against different illnesses and misfortunes. The cult of this martyr who lived in the 3rd century A.D. appeared in Istria probably in the early Middle Ages and became a part of the popular "arsenal" against plague. In time, it was replaced by the cult of another late medieval saint, Rochus. Therefore, probably to...

A Suggestion on Suggestion

Sebastian

The work with Sebastian has centered around an attempt to correlate certain factors of efficiency in adolescence and an analysis of increased Binet I. Q. with increased physical fitness. Sebastian comes of American stock of average social status. His parents are of average mentality. There is no history of specific disease, but for some ten years the family finances have been at a very low leve...

Ronald Bachmann and Sebastian

Using an administrative data set containing daily information on individual workers’ employment histories, we investigate how workers’ labour market transitions are affected by international outsourcing. In order to do so, we estimate hazard rate models for match separations, as well as for worker flows from employment to another job, to unemployment, and to nonparticipation. Outsourcing is fou...

Hoffman, Sebastian

meaning. The first OEC entry for this item, “Þhan may Þe saules in purgatory, By way of grace specialy, be delivered of pyn” (67) dates from 1340. Not until the eighteenth century are found such uses as, “I ... left the city by way of the Bowery” (OED, 1787, 69), in which the meaning is concrete, as a ‘path’ or ‘route’. This item demonstrates how the corpus approach in this study make possible ...