COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Halford, Mónica Sosaya (American santera, born 1931)
Creator note:
SCAS Master's Lifetime Achievement Award, 1994 (colcha, retablos)
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
1980
Title:
Santa Librada
Title:
Saint Liberata
Title:
Saint Uncumber
Title:
Saint Wilgefortis
Inscription:
on back: Monica / Sosaya / Halford / 1980
Location name:
New Mexico
Materials display:
paint on fired clay, copper and wood (plant material)
Material name:
paint
Material name:
clay
Material name:
copper
Material name:
wood (plant material)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Wilgefortis (Legendary saint)
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Exhibition note:
Denver, CO: Museo de las Americas, Feb-June 2007.
Acquisition note:
2001
Accession number:
RU0640
Measurements display:
cross: 55.9 x 36.8 cm; figure: 35.6 x 25.4 cm
Santo Subject:
Santa Librada (Saint Liberata, Kümmernis, Uncumber, or Wilgefortis)
Santo Subject Type:
Female Saints
Feast Day:
July 20
Patronage:
Patronage: A penitential saint for women.
Note:
Reputedly the daughter of a Portuguese king, one of nine sisters born of a single birth, she wished to devote herself to Christ; her father, who at first had tried to kill all nine and subsequently wanted to marry them off to his advantage, was somewhat thwarted when Librada grew a beard, so he had her crucified. The whole tale grew up, it seems, from a misinterpretation of an early-medieval clothed crucified Christ; see Hippolyte Delahaye, The Legends of the Saints (1961; original 1907); Roland Dickey, New Mexico Village Arts (1949), p. 157; José E. Espinosa, Saints in the Valleys (1967; original 1960), pp. 93-94. A crucified woman in long robes, with a hood or long hair; in New Mexico she never sports a beard, unfortunately.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED
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