Title: "Saint Bernard." St. Bernard, an Italian priest, founded a famous hospice and monastery serving travelers for nearly a thousand years as a refuge in the most dangerous part of the western Alps. St. Bernard's hospitality saved many pilgrims crossing the Alps to visit Rome and the Holy Land from freezing temperatures, blizzards, avalanches and robbers. The large breed St. Bernard dogs were named after the monastery where they were bred for rescue missions.
St. Bernard, the hospitality saint, is the patron of skiers and mountain climbers. "Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light....You will find something more in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters." -St. Bernard of Montjoux.
Artist: Lynn Garlick, Taos, New Mexico. The artist reserves all copyrights.
Media: High quality folk art print decoupaged onto pine board.
Dimensions: 10" x 5 3/8" x 3/4"
Condition: New.
Speaking of her work, Lynn Garlick says, "The diverse cultures and the landscape of this part of the country deeply and yet unintentionally influenced me both artistically and spiritually. I am nourished by Northern New Mexico's rugged wildness and rawness. The profound devotion found in the different traditions and faiths here are unusual and inspiring."
Moved by the sacred art of the retablos (paintings) and the santeros (saint makers) who made them, Lynn started creating them herself. Lynn hand carves and paints her original designs on the traditionally used Ponderosa pine planks. Then she decoupages high quality prints of her originals onto pine boards in an old school technique used for the Italian altar screens of medieval Europe.
The saints and angels are ready to hang or rest about your home. On the back of each retablo is an inspiring story about the angel or saint. Many of the descriptions also include a prayer. "The saints, angels and prayers have changed and blessed my life. My hope is that they touch and bless others as well.