Old Master Paintings & Spanish Colonial Art
Lote 376:
Oil on canvas, framed, framed measurements: 179 x 127, canvas measurements: 162 x 112 cm. Saint Felix was the first saint of the Capuchin order. He loved to always be immersed in prayer, which is the source of all the gifts from heaven. As the saint was illiterate and could not read, he used to say that he studied only six letters: five red and one white, and that these were enough to be learned in the science of the saints. The five red letters stood for the five wounds and the passion of Jesus Christ, which was the common theme of his meditations. The impeccable white letter signified the purity of Mary Mother of God, to whom he was very devoted, to whom he tried to imitate her sublime virtues. Above all this virtue, that of purity, which above all other virtues is the most dear to the Virgin.
