COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Gonzales, Roberto (American santero, born 1951)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1997
Title:
San Ignacio de Loyola
Title:
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Note Fr. Steele:
"The name 'San Ignacio de Loyola; is an alabado formula -- a nice neat octosyllabic line just begging to be provided with a tonada."
Inscription:
"signed on front 'Roberto 97'; labeled on back: 'Saint Ignatius Loyola / 'San Ignacio de Loyola' / Feast Day: July 31 / Medium: Milkbased natural pigments on ponderosa pine. / Roberto Gonzales / Palm Sunday / 3-23-1997-42 / 3 of 6 / Fr. Steele Collection"
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Acquisition note:
gift of the artist, March 1997
Accession number:
RU0319
Measurements display:
19 x 12.5 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