Looking for Santa Barbara

Saturday, September 15, 2012 in Mesilla, New Mexico | 2 comments

Yesterday I wrote about the Saint Lady of Mesilla, Francesca de Garcia, who paints retablos which are devotional paintings of the saints and Virgin Mary. A reader asked me to look for a Saint Barbara. “I used to throw a Feast of Saint Barbara party every year because when I was looking for a good time to have a housewarming shortly after Thanksgiving, that was the name on the first Saturday in December,” she wrote.

I should have mentioned that Francesca has a website where you can purchase her retablos (according to her web site, she’s sold some 75,000 “Little Saints” in the past 15 years). She has painted “over 400 different folkart images of Catholic saints, religious icons, angels and name sakes and pre-religion prophets.” I’m not sure what pre-religion prophets are but you can find them at www.saintsandfolkart.com. And, of course, she has a Santa Barbara.

 

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  1. Barbara Stoner’s avatar

    Barbara Stoner on Saturday, September 15, 2012 at 11:28 am

    Thank you! So cool, with her little tower, in which she supposedly locked herself to preserve her virginity. My take is that the guy papa wanted her to marry was old and fat and farted a lot, in which case I’m with her. Otherwise, I did spend some time in my youth trying to make up the difference. A friend who always came to the Feasts brought me a bonafide saint card when she returned from her mother’s very Catholic funeral years back. Still have it. Just in case. :)

  2. Angeline’s avatar

    Angeline on Saturday, September 15, 2012 at 5:33 pm

    Thank you for the website! These are wonderful retablos. I’m definitely buying #230 and Guardian Angel and Noah’s Ark….to start.

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