COLLECTION NAME:
Santo Collection
Record
Creator display:
Santistevan, Carlos (American santero, born 1938)
Creator note:
American santero
Creator role:
creator
Date display:
acquired 2014
Title:
Santa Gertrudis
Title:
Saint Gertrude
Title:
Santa Gertrudis la Magna
Title:
Saint Gertrude the Great
Description:
Standing female figure in black nun's habit, holding a staff with a red pennant in her right hand and a heart in her left.
Inscription:
on back: Santa Gertuardis / CAS|Affixed to back: artist's business card
Location name:
Denver
Location name:
Colorado
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:
Gertrude, the Great, Saint, 1256-1302
Work type:
retablos (panel paintings)
Acquisition note:
2014, gift of Ann Levy.
Accession number:
RU0890
Measurements display:
13.3 x 5.7 cm
Santo Subject:
Santa Gertrudis (Saint Gertrude the Great)
Santo Subject Type:
Female Saints
Lived:
1256-1302
Feast Day:
November 16
Patronage:
Patronage: of the medieval devotion to the Sacred Heart; patroness of the young, especially students; perhaps for faith and for souls in purgatory.
Note:
A German Benedictine nun and mystic with a great devotion to the heart of Christ as a symbol of mystical union with him; she is patroness of the West Indies, then understood to include New Mexico.
Rights text:
IN COPYRIGHT - EDUCATIONAL USE PERMITTED