#Spanish saint

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Saint Peter of Alcantara

1499-1562

Feast Day: October 19

Patronage: night watchmen, Eucharistic adoration, Brazil, Estremadura Spain

Saint Peter of Alcantara was a Spanish Franciscan friar of noble birth. He was friends of many 16th century saints including St Teresa of Avila who he was her confessor. Peter was a priest, mystic, writer, preacher, and provincial of the Observant Franciscans. He worked towards church reform, starting with himself, practicing severe penances and patience. At times he only ate once in 3 days and sleeping 90 min. a night. He started the Alcantarine reforms, which followed a stricter order of the rule of St. Francis. He died while praying on his knees.

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Juan de la Abadía el Viejo (The Elder) (Spanish, c.1470-1498) Saint Michael the Archangel, c.1486 Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid

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Saint Martin Sharing His Cloak, Blasco de Grañén (aka the Master of Lanaja), mid-15th century

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There are three religions in Italy

One is the catholic church

The second is Ferrari

The third is whatever the fuck Valentino Rossi got going on

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Saint Sebastian, Jusepe de Ribera, 1636

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Allegory of the Immaculate Conception, Spain, 17th century

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Saint Stephen

Spanish, Castile

first quarter of the 16th century

gilt and polychromed wood

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Spanish School St. Sebastian

Polychrome carving, 66 cm (figure) + 8 cm (base), 17th century

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐄𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚

𝐆𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐥 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚 𝐔𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐥

𝟏𝟖𝟗𝟓 - 𝐎𝐢𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐯𝐚𝐬

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Saint James the Moor Slayer at the Battle of Clavijo by Belisario Corenzio

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“Femme de Murcie” from Costumes de Differents Pays by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, 18th centrury

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Saint John of the Cross Doctor of the Church 1542-1591 Feast day:  December 14 (New) November 24 (Trad) Patronage: contemplative life, contemplatives

Saint John of the Cross, a Spanish mystic priest, was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation. He suffered many hardships of life in his youth. He boarded at a school for the poor where he felt the call of a religious vocation. In 1563, he joined the Carmelites and in 1567 he befriended St.Teresa of Avila. They both worked to reform the lax Carmelite order to a more strict, prayerful, and simpler order. (the Discalced Carmelites) There were major disagreements and the Carmelites even incarcerated St. John for disobedience. During imprisonment, John wrote some of his deepest spiritual poetry and contemplations, which is why he is a Doctor of the Church. St. John of the Cross died of a skin infection.

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[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Juan de la Abadía el Viejo (The Elder) (Spanish, c.1470-1498) Saint Michael Weighing Souls, c.1480-95 Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC, Barcelona "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God" (Psalms 9:17). - The Bible

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San Sebastian, Federico García Lorca, 1927

“Let us agree,” Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, “that one of man’s most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian.” “In my ‘Saint Sebastian’ I remember you,” Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had just written, “. . . and sometimes I think he is you. Let’s see whether Saint Sebastian turns out to be you.”

The two men had a “tragic, passionate relationship,” Dali once wrote—a friendship pierced by the arrows of Saint Sebastian.

Sebastian's Arrows: Letters and Mementos of Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca, trans. Christopher Maurer

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Francisco de Zurbarán — Saint Francis of Assisi. 1635–1639. detail

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Saint Sebastian, Jusepe de Ribera, 1651