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Devotees praying to Santa Muerte in Mexico. Santa Muerte can be translated into English as either "Saint Death" or "Holy Death", although R. Andrew Chesnut, Ph.D. in Latin American history and professor of Religious studies, believes that the former is a more accurate translation because it "better reveals" her identity as a folk saint.
The Catholic Church has been present in what is now Mexico since the earliest years of the sixteenth century. As early as 1517, the expedition of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba brought Catholicism to the Yucatan, where the first diocese in continental North America would be erected in 1518. Mexico's first saint was canonized in 1862.
He has paintings at Museo del Prado and Museo de Málaga. His painting The Beheading of Saint Paul is in a preferred place at the Malaga Cathedral . [ 2 ] Since he was also devoted to decorative painting and landscape, among his surviving works which stand out are the four large canvases on Allegories of Law in the Palace of Justice in ...
The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew is a 1675-1682 oil on canvas painting by Murillo, now in the Museo del Prado. [1] Its tone is heavily influenced by the work of Peter Paul Rubens, particularly his own depiction of the same subject, [2] and de Ribera's The Martyrdom of Saint Philip. [3]
Toribio Romo González, known as Saint Toribio Romo (Spanish: santo Toribio Romo, Spanish pronunciation: [ˌsanto toˈɾiβjo ˈromo]; April 16, 1900 – February 25, 1928) was a Mexican Catholic priest and martyr who was killed during the anti-clerical persecutions of the Cristero War.
The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew is an oil on canvas painting by Peter Paul Rubens, which since 1989 has been in the collection of the Fundación Carlos de Amberes, Madrid. It was painted in 1639, the year before the artist's death. The work was a commission from Jan van Vucht from Flanders living in Madrid.
The Conversion of Saint Paul is a c.1675-1680 oil on canvas painting by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, acquired by Charles IV of Spain and now in the Prado Museum in Madrid. [ 1 ] Description
Saint Paul is a 1610-1614 painting by El Greco, now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. [1] The painting is key to Gregorio Marañón 's theory that the painter used mental patients at the Hospital del Nuncio as models.