COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Olivas, John (American santero, born 1947)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1989 circa
Title:
Nuestra Señora del Rosario
Title:
Our Lady of the Rosary
Description:
Standing, female figure wearing a long cape and long robes featuring carved embellishments. Her hands are folded in front of her chest in prayer.
Note Fr. Steele:
"John Tollardo of Taos (originally) & Albuq ; his cousin (>) Frank, of Taos NBU"|"in the Patr[ocinio] Barela / Leo/Del Salazar tradition."|"note that the baby is lacking in this particular bulto."
Location name:
Taos
Location name:
New Mexico
Location name:
Taos (county)
Location name:
Albuquerque
Materials display:
carved wood (plant material)
Material name:
wood (plant material)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Acquisition note:
1989, purchased from John Tollardo
Accession number:
RU0136
Measurements display:
7.6 x 1.4 x 10.2 cm
Santo Subject:
Nuestra Señora del Rosario (Our Lady of the Rosary)
Santo Subject Type:
Female Saints
Feast Day:
October 7
Patronage:
Patronage: Acceptance of death in the family (saying the rosary is a central part of velorios [wakes] for the dead; see Lorin Brown, Hispano Folklife of New Mexico(1978), 134-35, where the crucifix of the rosary is the key to the gates of heaven); for peace, for help in danger and protection from accidents.
Note:
Because of the association of the rosary with the sea victory over the Muslim fleet at Lepanto on 7 October 1571, there is probably by analogy a New Mexican application to conflicts with non-Christian Indian foes. The Spanish-made La Conquistadora of the Santa Fe Cathedral, a sixteenth or early-seventeenth-century Asunción, was made first into a Purísima Concepción and then into a Rosario. It was very much connected with the military reconquest of the colony under De Vargas in 1692-93. Her official name was changed to Our Lady of Peace in 1992. Cortés gave the original Mexican Conquistadora now in Puebla to a Tlascaltecan cacique ally; Holweck, Calendarium Liturgicum Festorum Dei et Dei Matris Mariae (1925), 306; Castro, Artes de Mexico113 (1968), 40-42. The Virgin holds the Niño and a rosary; she is crowned though the Child is usually not; she stands on a crescent moon. Sometimes she is shown giving the rosary to Santo Domingo Guzmán, whose Order of Preachers especially spread the practice of reciting the rosary.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED