COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Aragon, Luis (American santero, 1899-1977)
Creator note:
American santero
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1974
Title:
Santa Ines del Campo
Materials display:
pine and cedar
Material name:
pine (wood)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Accession number:
RU0039
Measurements display:
26 x 12 x 12 cm
Santo Subject:
Santa Inés del Campo (Saint Inez or Agnes of Benigamin)
Santo Subject Type:
Female Saints
Lived:
Santa Inés del Campo (Saint Inez or Agnes of Benigamin)
Feast Day:
January 21 or 22
Patronage:
Patronage: of persons and animals lost in the wilderness, of those who work outdoors, of transients and runaways; for purity; for trees, flowers, crops, and flocks. There is a great alabanza in her honor, and Pedro Fresquis wrote on a retablo of her, "Santa Ynes deve ser Abogada de lo perdiddo en el campo -- Saint Inés must be the advocate of anyone or anything lost in the outdoors."
Note:
A discalced Augustinian nun of a convent near Valencia, especially devoted to the Eucharist; Josepha was her name in religion. A long garment, sometimes a nun's veil or wimple, sometimes long hair; holding a palm and candle or a staff which is in flower; in a landscape of sorts sometimes with lambs.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED