COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Aragón, José Rafael (Colonial Spanish American santero, ca. 1796-1862)
Creator note:
Probably worked with his brother, José, creating santeros in colonial Santa Fe. Some scholars believe this brother, the legendary "José Aragon," is instead a man with a similar name from the Las Cruces area.
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1840-1862 circa
Title:
San Ignacio de Loyola
Title:
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Description:
Three-quarters view of a bearded male figure wearing a brown robe and black cape, holding a red book with both hands to his right. A black biretta sits on a triangular shelf (?) just above the book.
Note Fr. Steele:
"characteristic Rafael A brown. Magnificent Batman biretta at left rear, splendid expression on saint's face--truly a museum-quality item."|"I looked for 25 years to find a really high-quality Ignacio. I didn't have another 25 guaranteed me, so I blew the year's budget on this great museum-quality panel. I've never had a moment's regret; Ignacio is totally special to every Jesuit."
Location name:
New Mexico
Materials display:
paint on wood panel
Material name:
paint
Material name:
panel (wood by form)
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:
retablos (panel paintings)
Conservation note:
"Soluvar. A small amount of restoration in yellow-green swag at left rear."
Acquisition note:
"1991, from Marie Romero Cash--his quincentennial of birth."
Accession number:
RU0144
Measurements display:
33.3 x 25 cm
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
