Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: El Sieruo de Dios fr. Gonçalo Diaz de Amarante del Rl. y Militry. Orden de Na. Sa. de la Merced. Ron. et d[e] Cautos. murio en 27 d[e] Enero de 1618

Accession number: 
79-71
Record number: 
79-71-1
JCB call number: 
BA678 C718v
Image title: 
El Sieruo de Dios fr. Gonçalo Diaz de Amarante del Rl. y Militry. Orden de Na. Sa. de la Merced. Ron. et d[e] Cautos. murio en 27 d[e] Enero de 1618
Creator 1: 
Marcus Orozco
Creator 1 role: 
Presber. Sculpt.
Place image published: 
Madrid
Image publisher: 
[Antonio Gonçalez de Reyes]
Image date: 
[1678]
Image function: 
frontispiece
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
17.9 cm.
Image dimension width: 
12.9 cm.
Page dimension height: 
18.5 cm.
Page dimension width: 
13.6 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Spanish
Description: 
A monk holding keys and carrying a basket filled with bread [?] over his arm looks at a vision of the Virgin Mary wearing a crown and surrounded by angels. Before him native Americans with feathered headdresses pray.
Source creator: 
Colombo, Felipe, 1623-1684
Source Title: 
Vida del servio de Dios V. P. Fray Gonzalo Diaz de Amarante ...
Source place of publication: 
En Madrid
Source publisher: 
Por Antonio Gonçalez de Reyes
Source date: 
1678
notes: 
Gonzalo Diaz de Amarante was born in Portugal, but traveled to Peru where he became a Mercedarian religious. In 1675, the apostolic process of making him a saint was initiated.
Time Period: 
1651-1700
References: 
http://www.orderofmercy.org/Survey/chapt04.htm (Jan. 2006)
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1978.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Spanish America
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Diaz de Amarante, Gonzalo, 1540-1618
Subject headings: 
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Apparitions and miracles