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Title: Any idea who this Saint is?
Post by: Incredulous on April 04, 2022, 09:33:46 PM


Does anyone recognize the Saint depicted in the attached photo?

Sorry, I have no additional information about her.
Title: Re: Any idea who this Saint is?
Post by: Emile on April 04, 2022, 09:45:02 PM
Because of her green habit, maybe St. Mella of Leitrim?

https://www.omniumsanctorumhiberniae.com/2013/03/saint-mella-of-doire-melle-march-31.html
Title: Re: Any idea who this Saint is?
Post by: DigitalLogos on April 04, 2022, 09:57:40 PM
Is she supposed to be black? Or is that just the lighting?
Title: Re: Any idea who this Saint is?
Post by: Nadir on April 04, 2022, 10:02:05 PM
Is she supposed to be black? Or is that just the lighting?
Nor it is the statue, which could represent St Monica. Just a guess though. It’s beautiful. Is that a second hand shop, Incred?
Title: Re: Any idea who this Saint is?
Post by: Knight Templar on April 04, 2022, 10:10:14 PM
It is very difficult to make out, but I think it may be one of the two entirely conjectural possibilities below:

1. Matrona Nikonova (not a Saint)
2. Anaisa Pye (not a Saint) - more likely of the two.
Title: Re: Any idea who this Saint is?
Post by: DigitalLogos on April 04, 2022, 11:31:39 PM
Nor it is the statue, which could represent St Monica. Just a guess though. It’s beautiful. Is that a second hand shop, Incred?
St. Monica was going to be my first guess
Title: Re: Any idea who this Saint is?
Post by: Nadir on April 05, 2022, 12:02:06 AM
It is very difficult to make out, but I think it may be one of the two entirely conjectural possibilities below:

1. Matrona Nikonova (not a Saint)
2. Anaisa Pye (not a Saint) - more likely of the two.
1. Matrona Nikonova is a "saint" of the Orthodox and I don't think the orthodox have statues
2. Anaisa Pye depicted wearing green and holding the hand of a small girl. She meant to be St Anne. so I don't think either is feasible.

She is carrying a cross so could she be St Helena? Helena was Greek but her birthplace is unknown. St Ambrose called her  a bona stabularia, a "good stable-maid". (WIKI)
Title: Re: Any idea who this Saint is?
Post by: OBrien on April 05, 2022, 10:28:07 AM
Maybe this Saint-? I don't have enough knowledge to read who this is. 
(https://i.imgur.com/aeX8Wfo.png)
Title: Re: Any idea who this Saint is?
Post by: ca246 on April 05, 2022, 10:43:16 AM
Maybe this Saint-? I don't have enough knowledge to read who this is.
(https://i.imgur.com/aeX8Wfo.png)
I think I do, St. Euphrosyne of Polotsk. You can read about her in the Catholic Encyclopedia (https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05606c.htm).
Title: Re: Any idea who this Saint is?
Post by: Incredulous on April 06, 2022, 09:06:12 PM


Wow.. thanks for all your inputs!

At least it gives us some direction and ideas to search for.
Title: Re: Any idea who this Saint is?
Post by: Charity on April 07, 2022, 02:43:07 PM
St. Rose of Lima who was a contemporary and close friend of the mulatto St. Martin de Porres.  Both of them were Third Order Dominicans and apparently the color of the garment for Third Order Dominicans at that time was a dark green, at least according to a good number of the images seen of them and many images of St. Rose of Lima have her holding the crucifix.  (I hope the beautiful statue did not originate with Santeria!)
Title: Re: Any idea who this Saint is?
Post by: Seraphina on April 07, 2022, 04:02:58 PM
Isn’t the writing on the sides Old Church Slavonic?  Could she be Ukrainian Catholic?  The picture an icon?
Title: Re: Any idea who this Saint is?
Post by: gladius_veritatis on April 07, 2022, 11:29:11 PM
Does anyone recognize the Saint depicted in the attached photo?

Why presume the image depicts a Saint?  Is it a photo of an actual statue?  Sorry, but hard to tell on my end.  Thank you.