COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Trujillo, Leroy (American santero, born 1933)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1997
Title:
San Ignacio de Loyola
Title:
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
Description:
Crowned, bearded male figure clad in long, dark robes holding a book in his left hand.
Note Fr. Steele:
"LeRoy said that the very light blue robe ought to be much darker, suggested that I repaint or get a santero to repaint ... dark blue + dab of black + dab of brown? Joe Esquibel did the task for us; it came out almost dead black."
Inscription:
on front: San Ignacio
Location name:
Roy
Location name:
New Mexico
Location name:
Harding (county)
Materials display:
wood (plant material)
Material name:
wood (plant material)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Acquisition note:
6 April 1997, gift of Phil and Mollie Freeman
Accession number:
RU0325
Measurements display:
41 x 9.8 x 9.8 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