COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Molleno, Antonio (Colonial Spanish American santero, active ca. 1815-1845)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1815-1830 circa
Title:
Santa Rosalia de Palermo
Title:
Saint Rosalia of Palermo
Description:
Female figure with long, dark hair and rose-colored crown, wearing a dark robe with white collar, and white cord around, and hanging down from, the waist. The figure is missing both wrists and hands.
Note Fr. Steele:
"early Molleno."|"original base and hair. Missing both wrists/hands, but otherwise in extraordinarily good condition. Rose-colored crown, white cord around waist and hanging down, but plain (without OFM knots); some yellow paint on the wide collar that may be later."
Location name:
New Mexico
Materials display:
paint on carved wood (plant material)
Material name:
paint
Material name:
wood (plant material)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Rosalia, Saint, d. 1160
Subject type:
Personal bibliography
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Conservation note:
Soluvar
Exhibition note:
Displayed Regis University Library September-October 1992
Acquisition note:
1989, from Larry Frank, with RU0134.
Accession number:
RU0133
Measurements display:
27 x 9.8 x 6.5 cm
Santo Subject:
Santa Rosalía de Palermo (Saint Rosalia of Palermo)
Santo Subject Type:
Female Saints
Lived:
Died: about 1160
Feast Day:
September 4
Patronage:
Patronage: against plague, prayed to at velorios for the dead; patroness of engaged couples; probably patroness of penance for the women auxiliaries of the Brotherhood.
Note:
One stanza of an alabanza praises her: "Contigo el demonio / se muestra impaciente / de ver a tu cuerpo / haces penitente -- With you the devil / shows himself exasperated / seeing that you make / your body a penitent." According to a Sicilian legend, she was a girl of good family who became a hermitess; many years after her death, she saved Palermo from a plague and so became its patroness. Wearing a black, brown, or grey dress, a crown of roses, long hair, holding a cross, usually a skull, sometimes a book or a scourge
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED