The basic model is thought to have been the column in the Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome, from 1614.
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John Sarkander was a priest who was tortured to death in Olomouc prison in the beginning of the Thirty Years' War, because he, as the legend says, refused to break the seal of confession.
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