M0013956: Statue of Saint Louis de France (13th century) / M0013957: Statue of Saint Margaret of Antioch (3rd century) / M0013958: Statue of Saint Giles of Nimes (8th century)

Date:
1955
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/125/32
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Also known as

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Saint Giles of Nimes (8th century).
Previous title, replaced January 2022: Saint Louis de France (13th century, 1270).
Previous title, replaced January 2022: Saint Margaret, martyr at Antioch (3rd century).

Description

Photograph of three statues of Louis IX of France (1214-1270) commonly known as St Louis, St Margaret of Antioch and St Giles the Hermit.

St Louis is invoked against plague. The statue was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number R446/1938) but is not held by Wellcome Collection.

St Margaret is the patron saint of married woman and nurses and invoked by women during childbirth and invoked against infertility. The statue was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number R433/1938) but is not held by Wellcome Collection.

St Giles is the patron saint of shepherds and all who deal with animals and is invoked against many diseases including cancer, epilepsy and sterility. The statue was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1928 and accessioned in 1937 (accession number R4768/1937) but is not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

1955

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the items: acc. number R446/1938, acc. number R433/1938 and acc. number R4768/1937

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Copyright held by Wellcome Collection

Notes

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.

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

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