Lot 28: - Juan Antonio de Frias y Escalante , Cordoba 1630 - 1669 Madrid the vision of Saint Paschal Baylon oil on canvas

oil on canvas

measurements note 62.5 by 83.4 cm.; 24 5/8 by 32 3/4 in.

Saint Paschal Baylon was born into a peasant family at Torre-Hermosa in Aragon in 1540. A pious shepherd boy known to spend much of his time outside absorbed in devout prayer, he received a vision ordering him to join a local Franciscan community and eventually became a lay brother at a Franciscan friary of the Alcantarine reform. In 1897 Pope Leo XIII declared him patron of all Eucharistic Congresses and fraternities of the Blessed Sacrament.