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Looking for Santa Barbara

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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