San Francisco de Asis Retablo - Patron of Animals, Children, Kindness and Ecology
1181-1226 AD. Son of a wealthy cloth merchant, he renounced his family fortune, threw off his clothes and started the Franciscan Order. He laid down strict rules of poverty, humility and discipline. In 1224, while praying he received the stigmata.
San Francisco's Prayer: "Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred let me sow love, where there is doubt, faith, where there is despair, hope, where there is darkness, light, and where there is sadness, joy. O divine master, Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love, for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born into eternal life.
• Material: Baltic Wood, Print
• Size: 1.5" x 3.25" x .175"
• Origin: Taos, New Mexico
• Packaging: Story Card and Muslin Bag
Lynn Garlick Retablos Lynn started carving, painting, and producing her retablos in 1993. Her workshop is located in the high desert town of Taos, New Mexico. The retablo, or “board behind the altar”, was originally created in New Mexico in the 1800’s in response to the lack of Bibles and Icons being sent from the church in Rome. Lynn paints her originals retablos on traditional pine boards carving and then painting them with watercolor or occasionally oil and finishes them with a polyurethane. The originals are then reproduced and mounted on1/8 inch baltic birch. The backs are laser engraved with a prayer or information relating to each saint.
