Santa Rita de Cascia with Skull, 19th C. Spanish Colonial Retablo on Tin antique tramp art box Three of the four I

Three of the four I have are in great condition

in all its connotations

I've figured out that this is a portrait of the "Daughter of Tecumseh

I find it super poignant

Just a nice thing to keep on the desk (or hang on a nail near it)

Santa Rita de Cascia with Skull, 19th C. Spanish Colonial Retablo on Tin antique tramp art box Three of the four IDepicted in this 19th c. retablo on tin is Santa Rita de Cascia born Margherita Ferri Lotti Mancini (13811457) a window turned Augustinian nun canonized as the patroness of impossible causes and also known in many Catholic countries as patroness of abused wives and heartbroken women. (Rita apparently endured endured the physical and psychological abuse and infidelities of her nobleman husband Paolo Mancini for many years.) I love her for those