M0014073: Statue of an unidentified saint / M0014074: Statue of Saint Zita / M0014075: Statue of Saint Fiacre of Breuil

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Saint Fiacre.

Previous title, replaced January 2022: A Saint.

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Saint Zita: 13th century Italian saint recognised as the patron of domestic servants.

Three wooden statues of an unknown saint, St Zita, a 13th century Italian saint recognised as the patron of domestic servants and St Fiacre of Breuil (c.600-670) Irish saint who went to Gaul and founded an abbey at Breuil. Patron saint of gardeners and invoked against haemorrhoids, colic, cancer, fistula, headaches and veneral disease. The statue of the unknown saint was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1955 (accession number R35/1955). The statue of St Zita was purchased by the Museum in 1929 and accessioned in 1938 (accession number R422/1938) and the statue of St Fiacre was purchased by the Museum in 1934 and accessioned in 1938 (accession number R454/1938). None of them are held by Wellcome Collection.

1955

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide an entry for the items: acc. number R35/1955, acc. number R422/1938 and acc. number R454/1938

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.