COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Herrera, Nicholas (American santero, born 1964)
Creator note:
lifeOSAU, p. 138
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1994
Title:
Santa Rosalia de Palermo
Title:
Saint Rosalia of Palermo
Description:
Image of a female figure in long blue robes, holding a floral front in his left hand and a crucifix and rosary in his right hand. A skull and crossbones is featured at the figure's right foot.
Note Fr. Steele:
"Nick Herrera is a g-gr-nephew of Jose Ines Herrera of El Rito -- Robert Stroessner Santos of the Southwest 52-53, Shaklop Wooden Saints." | "all natural pigments (the subj was to be Rosa de Lima, Abiquiipatroness)." | "Nick was 'cover boy' for Spanish Market magazine, 1994; articles in Tradicion Revista 2/2 p27, 2/3 p28, 3/2 p47, 3/3 p90."
Inscription:
on front: Santa Rosalia / Nicholas Herrera
Location name:
New Mexico
Materials display:
pigment on carved wood (plant material)
Material name:
pigment
Material name:
wood (plant material)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Rosalia, Saint, d. 1160
Subject type:
Personal bibliography
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Acquisition note:
1994
Accession number:
RU0212
Measurements display:
35 x 23.2 cm
Santo Subject:
Santa Rosalía de Palermo (Saint Rosalia of Palermo)
Santo Subject Type:
Female Saints
Lived:
Died: about 1160
Feast Day:
September 4
Patronage:
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.
Note:
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
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED