Editing Longinus (section)

{{Short description|Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus}}
{{About|the Roman soldier|other uses|Longinus (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox saint
|honorific_prefix = [[Saint]]
|name =Longinus the Centurion
|birth_date = 1st century in Sandiale or [[Sandrales]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/631244|title=Sandrales/Sandiale: A Pleiades place resource|date=23 July 2012}}</ref> of [[Cappadocia]]<ref>"Pago autem nomen est Sandiale" "Σανδιάλη τῇ κώμῃ τό ὃνομα" from «[http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/20vs/103_migne_gm/0950-1050,_Symeon_Metaphrastes,_Vita_Sanctorum_Mensis_03_Martius_(MPG_115_0009_0076),_GM.pdf month March]» ΙΑ' page. 41 (in pdf page 17). [https://web.archive.org/web/20160701180053/http://www.documentacatholicaomnia.eu/20vs/103_migne_gm/0950-1050,_Symeon_Metaphrastes,_Vita_Sanctorum_Mensis_03_Martius_(MPG_115_0009_0076),_GM.pdf Archived] 1 Jul 2016. Retrieved 6 Feb. 2018</ref>
|death_date = 1st century
|feast_day =
* March 15: Roman Catholic Church (pre-1969)
* 16 October: Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Churches
* 22 October: Armenian Apostolic Church
* 14 November: Coptic Orthodox Church
|venerated_in = [[Anglican Communion]]<br />[[Eastern Orthodox Church]]<br />[[Oriental Orthodoxy]]<br />[[Catholic Church]]
|image = Bernini Hl. Longinus Petersdom.jpg
|caption = Statue of Saint Longinus by [[Bernini]] in [[Saint Peter's Basilica]]
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|attributes = Military attire, lance<ref name="Stracke">{{cite web |last1=Stracke |first1=Richard |title= Saint Longinus | url = http://www.christianiconography.info/longinus.html |website=Christian Iconography | date=2015-10-20}}</ref>
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|major_shrine = Inside [[St. Peter's Basilica]], [[Vatican City]]
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[[File:Meister des Rabula-Evangeliums 002.jpg|thumb|Illustration from the [[Rabbula Gospels]], AD 586: Longinus is labelled "{{lang|el|ΛΟΓΙΝΟϹ}}".]]
'''Longinus''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Λογγίνος) is the name of the Roman soldier who pierced the side of [[Jesus]] with a lance, who in apostolic and some modern [[Christian tradition]]s is described as a [[Conversion to Christianity|convert to Christianity.]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Fuhrmann|first1=Christopher|title=Policing the Roman Empire: Soldiers, Administration, and Public Order|date= 11 April 2014|edition= Reprint|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0199360017|page=231|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yspXtgPVoJQC&q=Longinus++&pg=PA231}}</ref> His name first appeared in the [[apocryphal]] [[Gospel of Nicodemus#Naming of New Testament figures|Gospel of Nicodemus]].<ref name="Barber">{{cite book |last1=Barber |first1=Richard |author-link1=Richard Barber |title=The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief |date=2004 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674013902 |page=[https://archive.org/details/holygrailimagina00barb/page/118 118] |url=https://archive.org/details/holygrailimagina00barb |url-access=registration |quote=gospel of nicodemus Longinus|access-date=24 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref> The lance is called in Catholic Christianity the "[[Holy Lance]]" (''[[lancea (weapon)|lancea]]'') and the story is related in the [[Gospel of John]] during the [[Crucifixion of Jesus|Crucifixion]].<ref>[[Gospel of John|John]] 19:34.</ref> This act is said to have created the last of the [[Five Holy Wounds]] of Christ.

This person, [[unnamed people in the Bible|unnamed]] in the [[Gospel]]s, is further identified in some versions of the story as the [[centurion]] present at the [[Crucifixion]], who said that Jesus was the son of God,<ref name="Baring-Gould"/> so he is considered as one of the first Christians and Roman converts. Longinus's legend grew over the years to the point that he was said to have converted to Christianity after the Crucifixion, and he is traditionally venerated as a [[saint]] in the [[Roman Catholic Church]], [[Eastern Orthodox Church]], and several other Christian communions.