Our lady and baby Jesus
Terracotta painted sculpture, with silver crown, 18th century
24 cm.
Private collection
TWO CHURCH FATHERS, around 1800
Spain or Italy
Wood, carved in, polychrome and gilt.
H. 59 cm or 60 cm
Private collection
Two Fathers dressed in liturgical vestments with corresponding attributes: Cast and gospel book or a cathedral. More
The Fathers of the Church are so called because of their leadership in the early Church, especially in defending, expounding, and developing Catholic doctrines. For the first two centuries, most of these men were bishops, although in later years certain priests and deacons were also recognized as Fathers. More Fathers of the Church
Saint Sebastian, c. 1500
German, probably Franks
Wood, polychrome
H. 230 cm
Private collection
St. Sebastian shackled to a tree wearing only a loincloth. On body several stigmata are visible.
Saint Sebastian (died c. 288 AD) was an early Christian saint and martyr. Sebastian had prudently concealed his faith, but in 286 was detected. Diocletian reproached him for his betrayal, and he commanded him to be led to a field and there to be bound to a stake so that archers from Mauritania would shoot arrows at him. "And the archers shot at him till he was as full of arrows as an urchin is full of pricks, and thus left him there for dead." Miraculously, the arrows did not kill him.
Sebastian later stood by a staircase where the emperor was to pass and harangued Diocletian for his cruelties against Christians. This freedom of speech, and from a person whom he supposed to have been dead, greatly astonished the emperor; but, recovering from his surprise, he gave orders for his being seized and beat to death with cudgels, and his body thrown into the common sewer. A pious lady, called Lucina, admonished by the martyr in a vision, got it privately removed, and buried it in the catacombs at the entrance of the cemetery of Calixtus, where now stands the Basilica of St. Sebastian. More St. Sebastian
MADONNA WITH CHRIST CHILD
Nuremberg, around 1550
Carved in Wood
H. 31 cm
Private collection
Virgin with the Christ child on her right arm, standing on a crescent moon. The depiction of the Madonna on the crescent is based on the vision of John the Evangelist in chapter 12 of Revelation, the final book of the New Testament. More Crescent Madonna
Saint Isabel
Craved and painted wood sculpture
24,5 cm.
Private collection
Isabelle of France (March 1224 – 23 February 1270), sister of St. Louis and daughter of King Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile, she refused offers of marriage from several noble suitors to continue her life of virginity consecrated to God. She ministered to the sick and the poor, and after the death of her mother, founded the Franciscan Monastery of the Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Longchamps in Paris. She lived there in austerity but never became a nun and refused to become abbess. She died there on February 23, and her cult was approved in 1521.. More Saint Isabel
Our Lady of Carmo, 18th Century
Terracotta sculpture
31 cm
Private collection
Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Ordem do Carmo) is the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in her role as patroness of the Carmelite Order. The first Carmelites were Christian hermits living on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land during the late 12th and early to mid-13th century. They built in the midst of their hermitages a chapel which they dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, whom they conceived of in chivalric terms as the "Lady of the place."
The Carmelite Order was the only religious order to be started in the Crusader States. More Our Lady of Carmo
Saint Francis and Christ
Carved wood sculpture
72 cm.
Private collection
Saint Francis of Assisi (1181/1182 – 3 October
1226),[1][3] was an Italian Roman Catholic friar and preacher. He
founded the men's Order of Friars Minor, the women’s Order of Saint Clare, the
Third Order of Saint Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. Francis is one
of the most venerated religious figures in history.
In 1219, he went to Egypt in an attempt to convert the Sultan
to put an end to the conflict of the Crusades. By this point, the Franciscan
Order had grown to such an extent that its primitive organizational structure
was no longer sufficient. He returned to Italy to organize the Order. In 1224,
he received the stigmata, during the apparition of Seraphic angels in a
religious ecstasy making him the first recorded person to bear the wounds of
Christ's Passion. More Saint Francis
Our Lady, 17th century,
Carved and painted wood
72 cm.
Private collection
Saint Nicholas (15 March 270 – 6 December 343)
Ons Lieve Heer op Solder, Amsterdam, Netherland
Saint Nicholas (15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also called Nikolaos of Myra, was a historic 4th-century Christian saint and Greek Bishop of Myra, in Asia Minor. Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nikolaos the Wonderworker. His reputation evolved among the faithful, as was common for early Christian saints, and his legendary habit of secret gift-giving gave rise to the traditional model of Santa Claus through Sinterklaas.
The historical Saint Nicholas, as known from strict history: He was born at Patara, Lycia in Asia Minor. In his youth he made a pilgrimage to Egypt and the Palestine area. Shortly after his return he became Bishop of Myra and was later cast into prison during the persecution of Diocletian. He was released after the accession of Constantine and was present at the Council of Nicaea.
He was buried in his church at Myra, and by the 6th century his shrine there had become well-known. In 1087 Italian sailors or merchants stole his alleged remains from Myra and took them to Bari, Italy; this removal greatly increased the saint’s popularity in Europe, and Bari became one of the most crowded of all pilgrimage centres. Nicholas’s relics remain enshrined in the 11th-century basilica of San Nicola at Bari. More Saint Nicholas
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