Stephen, St., protomartyr of the Christian Church, who was (Acts vii.) stoned to death in A.D. 33; his death is a frequent subject of the old painters, the saint himself being less frequently depicted, but when so he is represented usually in a deacon's dress, bearing a stone in one hand and a palm-branch in the other, or both hands full of stones.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Stephen, Leslie * Stephens, James