Chris Kenny

St Apollinaris

Construction with found twig

£365.00 (framed)

15cm x 20cm

July 22nd

Apollinaris was an apostle of St Peter and was tasked with evangelising Ravenna, at this time a port of great commercial and strategic importance busy with visiting merchants, soldiers and sailors.

He became the first bishop of Ravenna but his miracle-working attracted negative attention from Emperor Vespasian and, while fleeing with his flock, he was arrested and made to walk on burning coals.

When he continued to evangelise, he was caught, hacked with knives and had boiling water poured in his wounds.

Next he was beaten in the mouth with stones because he wouldn't refrain from spreading the word.

He was exiled to Greece but as his prescence there silenced the oracles, he was returned to Italy where he was beaten to death by idolaters.

His relics are still kept in Ravenna and are especially effective against gout, venereal disease and epilepsy.

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