SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA
MÆ’XICO, SIGLO XIX
Wood carving with glass eyes. Satin dress.
Height: 61cm
Private Collection
Saint Anthony of Padua
(Portuguese: Santo António), born Fernando Martins de Bulhões (1195 – 13 June
1231), also known as Anthony of
Lisbon, was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order. He
was born and raised by a wealthy family in Lisbon, Portugal, and died in Padua,
Italy. Noted by his contemporaries for his forceful preaching, expert knowledge
of scripture, and undying love and devotion to the poor and the sick, he was
the second-most-quickly canonized saint after Peter of Verona. He was
proclaimed a Doctor of the Church on 16 January 1946. He is also the patron
saint of lost things. More on
Saint Anthony of Padua
VIRGIN MARY WITH THE CHILD JESUS
MEXICO, EARLY 19th CENTURY
Wood carving with polychromy, and a metallic sheet halo
Height: 158 cm
Private Collection
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
(here, the King James version):
1 And
there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the
moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
2 And she
being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
3 And
there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having
seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
4 And his
tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the
earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered,
for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to
rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and
to his throne. More on Madonna on the crescent
OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL
MEXICO, EARLY 20th CENTURY
Alabaster, with polychromy
Height: 32 cm
Private Collection
Our Lady of Mount Carmel 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." Our Lady of Mount Carmel was adopted in the 19th century as the patron saint of Chile, in South America.
Since the 15th century, popular devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel has centered on the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, also known as the Brown Scapular, a sacramental associated with promises of Mary's special aid for the salvation of the devoted wearer. Traditionally, Mary is said to have given the Scapular to an early Carmelite named Saint Simon Stock. The liturgical feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is celebrated on 16 July. More on Our Lady of Mount Carmel
FRANCISCAN SAINTS
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI, SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA AND SAINT DIDACUS OF ALCALA
MEXICO, 18th, 19th and 20th CENTURIES
Wood carving with polychromy
Height: 22, 25 and 26.5 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 ANTHONY OF PADUA, see above
Didacus of Alcalá, also known as Diego de San Nicolás, was a Spanish Franciscan lay brother who served as among the first group of missionaries to the newly conquered Canary Islands. He died at Alcalá de Henares on 12 November 1463 and is now honored by the Catholic Church as a saint.
Didacus was born c. 1400 into a poor but pious family in the small village of San Nicolás del Puerto in the Kingdom of Seville. As a child, he embraced the hermit life and, later, placed himself under the direction of a hermit priest living not far from his native town. He then led the life of a wandering hermit. Feeling called to the religious life, he applied for admission to the Observant branch of the Order of Friars Minor at the friary in Albaida and was sent to the friary in Arruzafa, near Córdoba, where he was received as a lay brother.
Didacus was sent to the Order in Arrecife on the island of Lanzarote, part of the Canary Islands, which was still in the process of introducing the native people to Christianity. In 1445, Didacus was appointed as Guardian of the Franciscan community on the island of Fuerteventura.
In 1450, Diego went to Rome to be share in the Jubilee Year proclaimed by Pope Nicholas V, and to be present at the canonization of Bernardine of Siena in 1450. An epidemic broke out in the city. Didacus spent three months caring for the sick. His biographers record the miraculous cure of many whom he attended, through his pious intercession.
He was then recalled again to Spain and was sent by his superiors to the Friary of Santa María de Jesús in Alcalá, where he spent the remaining years of his life in penance, solitude, and the delights of contemplation. There he died on 12 November 1463 due to an abscess. More on Didacus of Alcalá
SAINT ANNE
MEXICO, EARLY 20th CENTURY
Wood carving
Height: 79 cm
Private Collection
Saint Anne (also known as Ann or Anna) of David's
house and line, was the mother of the Virgin Mary and grandmother of Jesus
Christ, according to apocryphal Christian and Islamic tradition. Mary's mother
is not named in the canonical gospels, nor in the Qur'an. Anne's name and that
of her husband Joachim come only from New Testament apocrypha, of which the
Protoevangelium of James (written perhaps around 150) seems to be the earliest
that mentions them. More on Saint
Anne
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