Spent a week were offering this picture. This is an oil on board 11 x 23 cm, an anonymous Toledo dated between 1540 and 1545, found in the Museo del Prado, representing the martyrdom of San Acacio and the hundred thousand Christians on Mount Ararat. According to legend, forged in the twelfth century along the St. Maurice and the martyrs of the Theban Legion, to instill courage to the folded, San Acacio was a Christian centurion who died in Cappadocia. Hadrian and Antoninus had gone on a campaign against rebels in the region of the Euphrates, whose army reached the hundred thousand men, with only nine thousand, among whom was Acacio. Although inequality and when they were ready to flee, an angel appeared to Acacio to announce they would make if called upon the true God. This happened, and the angel took them to Mount Ararat, where the two emperors, the soldiers tried to force Christians to renounce his faith, but failed. They were tortured, but neither the scourge
s or stones that were punished were effective to the extent that a thousand men of the pagan armies joined the martyrs, reaching the number of ten thousand.
Finally, all were crucified or impaled, and before he died, prayed to God that all those who celebrate his memory might enjoy health, body and soul, as well they were admitted. Ls
relics of this saint is venerated in Rome, Bologna, Cologne and Prague, and his popularity reached its zenith in the XV and XVI. Relied primarily to help the dying, for this reason in Germany was part of the group of "fourteen intercessors" and is the area where more is represented.
He easily identified: a Roman legionnaire armor or knight with a sword and crucifix or a branch of acacia, sometimes with a crown of thorns, it is assumed that she also martyred (and because it is thorny acacia). His performances as a saint isolated are rarer than those others in which his martyrdom is represented (as in the work of Carpaccio, in the gallery of the Academy in Venacio-left-), or accompanied by other "holy intercessors."
Bibliography: Reau, Louis, Iconography of Christian art. Iconography of the saints. AF, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bRowan, 1997, pp. 13-15
Images: Ficonofue.com; http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Ararat
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