COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Mulert, Terry Enseñat
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
unknown
Title:
San Geronimo
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20
Work type:
bultos
Work type:
sculpture (visual works)
Accession number:
RU0623
Measurements display:
35.56 x 17.78 x 12.7 cm
Santo Subject:
San Geronimo (Saint Jerome)
Santo Subject Type:
Male Saints
Lived:
Lived: 342-420
Feast Day:
September 30
Patronage:
Patronage: of children and especially orphans; against lightning
Note:
Well educated in Rome, he lived as a hermit for a time, then acted as secretary to the pope, then went to Palestine where he lived as a monk and translated the Bible from Hebrew and Greek into the Latin Vulgate version. In a variant of the Androclus-and-Lion tale from classical folklore, Jerome removed a thorn from a lion's paw, and the beast then served as wrangler for the monastery's donkey. When some traveling merchants stole the donkey, the monks accused the lion of having eaten it, so the lion went out, found the real culprits, rounded them up like so many cattle, and herded them and the donkey home. The story (like many others told of founders of religious orders) identifies the cloister as an unfallen Eden where humans are restored to God, humans live together without sexual competition, and humans and animals are once again at one. Eugene F. Rice, Saint Jerome in the Renaissance (1985), pp. 37-46. / Bearded, often tonsured, clad in a red mantle, striking a stone against his bare breast as he kneels in prayer, often before a small cross or crucifix; there is almost always a lion at his feet, and the trumpet of God's voice speaks in his ear.
Rights text:
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