Saint Barbara Fine Art Print

By Jan van Eyck

Item Number: 13613

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Author: H x W: Date:	Jan van Eyck 17" (43.1 cm) x 11" (27.9 cm) 1437

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Aquinas and More is proud to announce its fine art print collection. These famous pieces of art are printed on heavy artists board and shipped flat. These aren't your typical poster - these prints are high-quality reproductions that will be a treasured addition to your home or parish.

Prints are available in the following sizes (shipping included):

11in. x 17in. on photo quality paper
13in. x 19in. on photo quality paper
20in. x 28in. semi-gloss on heavy artist's board
24in. x 30in. matte finish on heavy artist's board

We can also produce some prints in a super-high resolution for that extra clarity. These prints cost $235 (shipping included) Please call if you are interested in ordering a super-high resolution print.

Some proceeds from the sale of these prints goes to support classical art education and renewal.

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We offer a unique service of printing "to order" any one or more of thousands of images. A great many of the images have never been printed before. We will do our best to make such prints as accurate as possible, but we cannot be held responsible for dissatisfaction under these circumstances.

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Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

St. Barbara

Feast Day:
Tridentine Calendar - 12/04

Patron Of: Ammunition Workers, Architects, Artillery, Brass Workers, Builders, Fireworks, Fortifications, Founders, Gunners, Impenitence, Lightning, Miners, Stone Masons, Storms, Sudden Death, Warehouses

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    Beautiful maiden imprisoned in a high tower by her father Dioscorus for disobedience. While there, she was tutored by philosophers, orators and poets. From them she learned to think, and decided that polytheism was nonsense. With the help of Origen and Valentinian, she converted to Christianity.

    Her father denounced her to the local authorities for her faith, and they ordered him to kill her. She escaped, but he caught her, dragged her home by her hair, tortured her, and killed her. He was immediately struck by lightning, or according to some sources, fire from heaven.

    Her imprisonment led to her association with towers, then the construction and maintenance of them, then to their military uses. The lightning that avenged her murder led to asking her protection against fire and lightning, and her patronage of firefighters, etc. Her association with things military and with death that falls from the sky led to her patronage of all things related to artillery, and her image graced powder magazines and arsenals for years. One of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.

    While there were undoubtedly beautiful converts named Barbara, this saint is legend, and her cultus developed when pious fiction was mistaken for history.

Died
    beheaded by her father c.235 at Nicomedia during the persecution of Maximinus of Thrace; relics at Burano, Italy, and Kiev, Russia

All information used with permission of the Patron Saint Index.

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