COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Gracia Gonzales, José de (Colonial Spanish American santero, active 1865-1902)
Creator note:
activity
Date display:
ca. 1865-1900
Title:
Santa Rita de Casia
Title:
Saint Rita of Cascia
Description:
Female figure wearing a nun's habit, holding a crucifix in her right hand and a skull in her left. The figure is bounded by swirls of pink and blue paint, a rock form to the left and flowering bushes on either side.
Note Fr. Steele:
"by José de Gracia Gonzáles or a follower."
Note Fr. Steele:
This panel has been lost since about 1987. . .
Location name:
Trinidad
Location name:
Colorado
Materials display:
paint on wood panel
Material name:
paint
Material name:
panel (wood by form)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Rita, of Cascia, Saint, 1381?-1457
Subject term:
black
Subject term:
women
Subject term:
skull
Subject term:
CRU
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Conservation note:
"I used paint remover to clean off a spot in the upper right corner, found only bare wood underneath, repainted."
Acquisition note:
1969, from a second hand store in Trinidad, CO.
Accession number:
RU0003
Measurements display:
20 x 14 cm
Santo Subject:
Santa Rita de Casia (Saint Rita of Cascia)
Santo Subject Type:
Female Saints
Lived:
1381-1457
Feast Day:
May 22
Patronage:
Patronage: of girls in need of husbands, of marriage, of mothers, of those in bad marriages, of all who must bear suffering; for the impossible; against sickness. There was a fear that too great a devotion to Santa Rita might bring a woman both the virtue of patience and a bad husband to help her exercise it. Rita probably also had penitential associations.
Note:
By her parents' wish, she married a man who turned out to be a bad husband; became a nun when he and her two sons all died; had mystical experiences during one of which a thorn from Christ's crown pierced her forehead. Wearing a nun's habit, holding a cross and a skull, occasionally with a wound on her forehead or the full stigmata.
Santo Subject:
Cristo Crucificado, Crucifijo (Crucifix)
Santo Subject Type:
Divine Subjects
Feast Day:
Good Friday
Note:
The death of Christ.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED
