Detail View: Santo Collection:

Creator display: 
Sandoval, Angela (American santera)
Creator role: 
creator
Date display: 
1991
Title: 
Santo Niño de Atocha
Title: 
Holy Child of Atocha
Description: 
Child wearing pilgrim's hat, green robe and white cape sitting in a chair, holding a water vessel in his right hand and a frond in his left.
Inscription: 
on back: Angela Sandoval / Santo Niño de Atocha
Location name: 
Santa Fe
Location name: 
New Mexico
Location name: 
Santa Fe (county)
Materials display: 
paint on wood panel
Material name: 
paint
Material name: 
panel (wood by form)
Source name: 
Thomas J. Steele, S.J.: The Regis University Collection of New Mexico and Colorado Santos.
Subject term: 
Atocha, Santo Niño de
Subject term: 
Jesus Christ--Apparitions and Miracles
Work type: 
retablos (panel paintings)
Provenance note: 
purchased at 1991.
Acquisition note: 
2013, gift of Tom Riedel
Accession number: 
RU0880
Measurements display: 
217.5 x 13.7 cm
Santo Subject: 
El Santo Niño de Atocha (The Holy Child of Atocha)
Santo Subject Type: 
Divine Subjects
Feast Day: 
none
Patronage: 
For travelers, for delivery of prisoners; more recently, against illnesses, especially those that cripple.
Note: 
A child, always seated, in pilgrim's garb (broad-brimmed hat, staff with gourd, shoes), with a basket which generally contains roses. The staff is often decorated with ribbons; the ankles are occasionally shackled together.
Rights text: 
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED