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Creator display:
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Molleno, Antonio (Colonial Spanish American santero, active ca. 1815-1845)
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Creator role:
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creator
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Date display:
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1815-1830 circa
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Title:
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Santa Rosalia de Palermo
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Title:
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Saint Rosalia of Palermo
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Description:
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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.
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Note Fr. Steele:
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"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."
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Location name:
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New Mexico
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Materials display:
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paint on carved wood (plant material)
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Material name:
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paint
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Material name:
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wood (plant material)
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Source name:
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Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
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Subject term:
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Rosalia, Saint, d. 1160
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Subject type:
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Personal bibliography
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Work type:
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bultos
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Work type:
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sculpture (visual works)
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Conservation note:
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Soluvar
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Exhibition note:
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Displayed Regis University Library September-October 1992
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Acquisition note:
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1989, from Larry Frank, with RU0134.
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Accession number:
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RU0133
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Measurements display:
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27 x 9.8 x 6.5 cm
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Santo Subject:
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Santa Rosalía de Palermo (Saint Rosalia of Palermo)
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Santo Subject Type:
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Female Saints
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Lived:
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Died: about 1160
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Feast Day:
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September 4
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Patronage:
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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.
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Note:
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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
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Rights text:
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IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED
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