COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
unknown artist
Date display:
1750 circa
Title:
San Ignacio de Loyola and San Francisco Xavier
Title:
San Ignacio de Loyola and San Francesco Xavier
Description:
Two-sided medallion featuring portrait bust of Saint Francis holding a staff on one side. On the reverse, a portrait bust of Saint Ignatius of Loyola holding a book and staff is featured.
Inscription:
on front: S. IGNAT.DE/LO/SOC.I.F|on back: S.FRANCES/CO.XAV.S.IE
Location name:
Italy
Materials display:
medal
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556
Work type:
medallions (medals)
Acquisition note:
1990, gift of Larry Frank
Accession number:
RU0137
Measurements display:
4.9 x 4 cm
Santo Subject:
San Francisco Javier, or Xavier (Saint Francis Xavier)
Santo Subject Type:
Male Saints
Lived:
1181- 1226
Feast Day:
October 4
Note:
The son of a merchant, founder of the Franciscans, dedicated to poverty and the passion of Christ, marked by the stigmata (the wounds of Christ in hands, feet, and side). His Order of Friars Minor had almost sole responsibility for New Mexico until the early nineteenth century. Wearing a blue robe with a cowl and a white cord with several knots in it around the waist, bearded and tonsured, marked with the stigmata on his hands and his bare or sandaled feet, he holds a crucifix or a cross and a skull or occasionally a book. Patronage: of birds and animals (a romantic-period emphasis, though with some warrant in the Wolf of Gubbio tale); for reconciliation within the family; for deceased members of the Third Order; for all virtues and all needs.
Santo Subject:
San Ignacio de Loyola (Saint Ignatius Loyola)
Santo Subject Type:
Male Saints
Lived:
Lived: c. 1491-
Feast Day:
July 31
Patronage:
Patronage: against witchcraft and the evil eye; for repentance and return to the sacraments; against illness. The penitential Brothers of Our Father Jesus the Nazarene thought of him as the founder or organizer of their cofradía, perhaps because his Exercises and his compañía sound like their exercises and their cofradía.
Note:
A Basque soldier, wounded in battle, becoming very devout during his convalescence, prepared for the priesthood and hoped to be a missionary to Palestine; founded the Society of Jesus on the basis of his Spiritual Exercises, a program of prayer. Dressed in a chasuble or a black cassock with or without a surplice, shown sometimes with a biretta, sometimes tonsured or bald; holding a monstrance or a book or plaque marked "IHS"; sometimes there is an apparition of Christ.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED