COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
unknown Mexican artist
Date display:
1875 circa
Title:
Nuestra Señora de los Dolores
Title:
Our Lady of Sorrows
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Work type:
paintings (visual works)
Accession number:
RU0046
Measurements display:
29 x 22 cm
Santo Subject:
Nuestra Señora de los Dolores (Our Lady of Sorrows)
Santo Subject Type:
Titles of Mary
Feast Day:
Friday before Palm Sunday and September 16
Patronage:
Patronage: Strength in suffering; compassion for others in sorrow; help with children, help in childbirth; for sinners. There is a definite penitential interest, as Chapter III (Santos and Saints) stated, since it is usually the Dolores bulto that engages in the Encuentro enactment as the Jesús Nazareno bulto moves in procession toward Calvary.
Note:
This is Mary enduring the sorrows predicted in Luke 2:35, especially that of the crucifixion of Jesus. The advocation arose about 1390, perhaps when the mourning figure of Mary was separated from a "Calvario" (crucifix with Mary and John) and made a distinct object of veneration; see Wroth, Images of Penance, Images of Mercy, p. 75. Mary standing with her hands folded, a sword or seven swords piercing her heart, wearing a red gown and a cowl; very infrequently she is crowned.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED