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Creator display:
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Headlee, Don (American santero, born 1938)
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Creator role:
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creator
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Date display:
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2001
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Title:
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San Acacio
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Title:
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Saint Acacius of Mount Ararat
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Description:
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Bearded figure wearing a military uniform crucified and wearing a crown of thorns; a staff with two pennants is to his right, and a musket resting on a drum to his left.
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Inscription:
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on bottom: San Acacio / Patron de los Soldados / Don Headlee / Mayo 1996
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Location name:
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Colorado
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Materials display:
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carved aspen and cedar
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Material name:
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aspen (wood)
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Material name:
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cedar (wood)
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Source name:
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Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
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Subject term:
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Acacius, of Mount Ararat, Saint
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Subject type:
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PersonalName
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Work type:
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bultos
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Work type:
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sculpture (visual works)
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Acquisition note:
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2001
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Accession number:
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RU0636
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Measurements display:
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17.5 x 26.7 x 10.2 cm
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Santo Subject:
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San Acacio (Saint Acacius of Mount Ararat)
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Santo Subject Type:
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Male Saints
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Feast Day:
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June 22
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Patronage:
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Patronage: The penitential Brothers took an interest in this patron of those who experience crucifixion; Acacio is also a military protector against any intruders (see Brown, Hispano Folklife of New Mexico, p. 216).
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Note:
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In German understanding of him, San Acacio was the leader of about ten thousand Roman soldiers who were converted to Christianity in Armenia and crucified; he was unheard of before the late fourteenth century. See José E. Espinosa, Saints in the Valleys, (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1967), pp. 92-93; Yvonne Lange, "In Search of "San Acacio," El Palacio94 # 1 (Summer-Fall 1988), 18-24, notes that Acacio was never much venerated in Spain or the southern portion of New Spain but only in New Mexico and what is now northern Mexico and that the crown of thorns rather than the traveler's or vaquero's hat was the headgear of the original iconography. Usually bearded, on a cross, wearing an eighteenth-century military uniform, crucified, wearing a crown of thorns, laurel, or occasionally roses or a hat, flanked by two or more soldiers, each of whom holds a drum, pennant, sword, or musket.
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Rights text:
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IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED
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