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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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unknown
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Title:
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Santa Barbara
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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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Barbara, Saint
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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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Accession number:
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RU0731
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Measurements display:
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31.75 x 22.86 x 13.97 cm
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Santo Subject:
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Santa Bárbara (Saint Barbara)
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Santo Subject Type:
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Female Saints
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Feast Day:
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December 4
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Patronage:
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Patronage: Protectress against lightning and tempests; a rhyming prayer ran, "Santa Bárbara doncella, Libera nos del rayo y la centella."
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Note:
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A legend originating in the tenth century or so avers that her father shut her up in a tower and killed her for her faith, whereupon lightning killed him. She owes a lot to Danaë. Wearing a crown, often with red plumes, holding a palm and a monstrance; a long dress with three flounces (honoring the Trinity); a tower in the background, often with three windows, and a thundercloud with lightning; sometimes a font or altar with a cross cut in the stone.
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Rights text:
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IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED
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