COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Zamora, Frank (American santero, born 1958)
Creator note:
life
Date display:
2010
Title:
Nuestra Señora de la Purisima Concepcion
Title:
Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception
Inscription:
on back: N.S. de la Purisma Concepion / Zamora 2008
Location name:
Denver
Location name:
Colorado
Materials display:
natural pigments and pine sap varnish on pine
Material name:
pigment
Material name:
pine (wood)
Source name:
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term:
Anthony, of Padua, Saint, 1195-1231
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Acquisition note:
1997
Accession number:
RU0859
Measurements display:
62.2 x 34.3 cm
Santo Subject:
Nuestra Señora de la Purísima Concepción (Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception)
Santo Subject Type:
Titles of Mary
Feast Day:
December 8
Patronage:
Patronage: For all favors, especially purity and repentance of sin; against all evil.
Note:
The words "Inmaculada" and "Limpia" are sometimes substituted for "Purísima." This is a devotion to the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church that Mary was conceived without any stain of original sin; it is not identical with the virgin birth of Christ and indeed has nothing to do with it directly, and it is not a profession of the virgin birth of Mary herself, which is not held by any Christian sect I am aware of. The Franciscan theologian Duns Scotus developed reasons for the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception in the fourteenth century; Sister María de Jesús de Ágreda, the "Lady in Blue," was a Franciscan "Conceptionist" nun; the Franciscans who staffed New Mexico in the seventeenth century took the color in honor of her bilocations to preach to the Indians of the region. The doctrine was solemnly proclaimed by Pius IX in 1854. Mary stands on an angel-supported moon or on a serpent, often wears a crown, holds her hands folded, and holds in them sometimes a flower; she may be surrounded by emblems like monstrance, rose, lily, palm, ladder, star, and so forth. Shalkop, Wooden Saints(1967), p. 40, notes that a bulto usually identified as the Purísima Concepción but probably technically La Alma was known in Abiquiú as Our Lady of Innocence.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED