M0014028: Three statues of Saint Mamertus, bishop of Vienne, Gaul

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Saint Mamert, a monk.

Three statues of St Mamertus (also St Mamert) (d. c.475) shown as a monk. He was invoked against pestilence and earthquakes, colicand abdominal pains. One of the six healing saints from Notre Dame du Haut, Moncontour, Brittany. Two statues were purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1928 and accessioned in 1937 and 1938 (accession numbers R2414/1937 and R592/1938). The third was purchased in 1934 and accessioned in 1938 (accession number R609/1938). They are not held by Wellcome Collection.

1955

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the items: acc. number R592/1938 and R609/1938 (image 49 and 51) and R2414/1937 (image 26)

Copyright held by Wellcome Collection

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.