Last week we proposed this image. This is a painting by Antonio van de Pere (77 x 55 cm) located in the Museo del Prado, which represents Cantalicio St. Felix (1513-1587). Born in Cantalicio (Citta Ducale, Umbria), a boy was a shepherd and farmer until listening to the lives of the saints, decided to imitate them, and went to the convent of Capuchin Franciscans Citta Ducale, where was admitted as a layman, from the Ascoli for his novitiate and ending in Rome, where he would perform the office of chaplain to the end of his days. There he was commissioned to go begging for the bread and wine to the community through the streets of Rome, whence comes the main iconographic attribute: a sack of bread, but sometimes they are present in the work, but not in the bag
necessarily being.
One night, while praying before the altar of the monastery, the Virgin appeared to him, letting him take in her arms the Child, a moment that has become the scene of his life represented by the artists.
died aged 72, so it is old, dressed in the Franciscan habit, brown, with a girdle of three knots and pointed hood, as is characteristic of the Capuchins. His body was found in the Roman church of Santa Maria della Conzecione. He was beatified by Urban VIII in 1625 and canonized by Clement XI in 1712.
Perhaps one of the most famous performances was due to Murillo, who painted for the Capuchins in Sevilla (left, now in the Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla).
Bibliography:
WHEEL CARMONA, Juan, Iconography of the saints, Madrid, Akal, 2008, pp. 140-142.
Images: ficonofue.com
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