COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Burch, Thomas "Tomás" (American santero, 1929-2013)
Creator note:
American santero
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1968
Title:
San Roque
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Exhibition note:
Hispanic American|Colonial Spanish American
Accession number:
RU0023
Measurements display:
15 x 9
Santo Subject:
San Roque (Saint Roch)
Santo Subject Type:
Male Saints
Lived:
Died: 1240
Feast Day:
August 31
Patronage:
Patronage: of pregnant women, women in childbed, and the unborn; patron of secrecy for the Penitentes; protector against being slandered or cursed; protector of captives and those oppressed by the infidel, with a possible application to Anglo land-grant manipulators (Robb, Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest, p. 709).
Note:
A Mercedarian (see #110), he traded himself into captivity to free some prisoners from the Moors; while a slave he refused to quit preaching as told, so his lips were padlocked; once released, he became a cardinal. His epithet refers to his being a caesarean birth from a dead mother.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED