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Polychrome wooden statue finely carved representative * Saint-Denis holding his head in his hands, period late seventeenth-early eighteenth century.
This statue is in good condition, it is in its own juice. A note: some gaps of polychrome, some cracks and wear wood, well look at the pictures.
Came from Italy to 250 or 270 AD-C. With six companions to evangelize France, was the first bishop of Paris (Lutetia), the apostle of Gaul. St. Denis founded several churches in France, and was martyred with Rustique and Eleutherius, his companions, to 272 during the persecution of Valerian. It is, according to some, in Montmartre (Mons Martyrum) or the Ile de la Cité, according to others, they were put to death. Based on the lives of St. Denis, written in Carolingian times, beheaded, Denis would have walked north for six miles, his head under his arm, by the way through Montmartre to be named Rue des Martyrs. At the end of his journey, he gave his head a pious woman originally from the Roman nobility and named Catulla, then collapsed. Was buried at that location and there built a basilica in his honor. The city is now called Saint-Denis.
