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St.
Louis Bertrán
Born - 1 January 1526
Died - 9 October 1581
Feastday
- 9 October
Canonized - 1671 by Pope Clement X
Statue
created - c.1672-1673
Part of a group of 16 installed
between August 1670 and March 1673
Sculptor
- :Lazzaro Morelli (1619-1690)
Height
- 3.1 m. (10ft 4in) travertine
Dressed in the Dominican
habit with a tonsure on his head, he raises his right hand
while holding a crucifix in his left.
A
Spanish Dominican who worked in Colombia and Panama, and also
in the Leeward Islands, he was known
as the Apostle of the Americas, and is a patron of Colombia. After his missionary
work, he returned to Spain to plead the cause of the oppressed
Indians.
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Saints on South Colonnade
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Sources:
The Book of Saints, ©2002 Edited by Dom Basil Watkins, OSB
Le Statue Berniniani del Colonnato di San Pietro by Valentino
Martinelli ©1987 by de Luca
Editore
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