COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
unknown Mexican artist
Date display:
acquired 2008
Title:
San Blas
Title:
Saint Blaise
Location name:
Guadalajara
Location name:
Mexico
Materials display:
paint on tin (metal) in tin (metal) frame
Material name:
paint
Material name:
tin (metal)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Work type:
paintings (visual works)
Provenance note:
purchased in Guadalajara, 1963.
Acquisition note:
2008, gift of Mrs. Robert (Patrica Romsa) Morris [RU0811-RU0826].
Accession number:
RU0816
Measurements display:
25.4 x 18.4 cm
Santo Subject:
San Blas (Saint Blaise)
Santo Subject Type:
Male Saints
Lived:
Died: about 316
Feast Day:
February 3
Patronage:
Patronage: Against ailments of the throat, since he was beheaded.
Note:
Supposedly a bishop and martyr, he is reputed to have been a physician and to have cured a boy with a fish-bone in his throat. San Blas seems to have meant nothing special in New Mexican liturgy until the Jesuit Father Biaggio (Blasius) Schiffini introduced the blessing of throats in 1887. Dressed as a priest in a long chasuble, with his hands out, bare-headed and clean-shaven.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED
