COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Aragón, José (Colonial Spanish American santero, active 1820-1837)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1820-1837 circa
Title:
San Ramon Nonato
Title:
Saint Raymond Nonnatus
Description:
Bearded, tonsured male figure wearing a red chasuble over white robes, holding a monstrance in his right hand and a wand with three crowns on it in his left.
Note Fr. Steele:
"see RU5 for quotes from an alabanza to this saint."
Location name:
New Mexico
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Raymond, Nonnatus, Saint, ca. 1204-1240
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Conservation note:
"needed cleaning as purchased; cleaned up extremely nicely. I replaced the broken leather loop with a new white deerskin one." Soluvar.
Exhibition note:
Aurora, CO: Aurora History Museum, May-Aug 2009.
Acquisition note:
1993 from Owings-Dewey Fine Art, Santa Fe.
Accession number:
RU0188
Measurements display:
26 x 15 cm
Santo Subject:
San Ramón Nonato (Saint Raymond Nonnatus)
Santo Subject Type:
Male Saints
Lived:
1240
Feast Day:
August 31
Patronage:
Patronage: of pregnant women, women in childbed, and the unborn; patron of secrecy for the Penitentes; protector against being slandered or cursed; protector of captives and those oppressed by the infidel, with a possible application to Anglo land-grant manipulators (Robb, Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest, p. 709).
Note:
A Mercedarian (see #110), he traded himself into captivity to free some prisoners from the Moors; while a slave he refused to quit preaching as told, so his lips were padlocked; once released, he became a cardinal. His epithet refers to his being a caesarean birth from a dead mother. Wearing orange or red chasuble or cloak over white robes; holding a monstrance and a wand with three crowns on it; bearded; sometimes with dots above and below his lips.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED