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Tobit?
St. James! I love name that Saint. It brings out the nerd in me.
St Joan of Arc?
St. Patrick?
I’m going with St. Wendelin…a Scotsman (hooray!)…who wound up in Trier. [Interesting.]
Just accounting for the staff and the sheep, two possibilities come to mind. First, David as a youth. Second, John the Baptist. (See Caravaggio’s John the Baptist (John in the Wilderness)). The clothes though would tend to favor David, I think.
St. Germaine Cousin?
Or St. Joan of Arc?
St. Isodore the Farmer?
St. Wendelin? Is this a Scottish church?
Joan of Arc?
I think you nailed it ArsAstronautica, or if you didn’t it sure was an excellent guess:
St. John the Baptist
I’m with Ex Cords in saying it’s St. Wendelin. In fact, I don’t think there’s really much doubt about it.
Er,
16th level bard with Cloak & Boots of Elvenkind; Celestial Armour; a Staff of the Woodlands; and a Handy Haversack?
Did a little digging after Boniface’s post . . .not really much doubt at all. Check this link guys (still think it was an excellent guess ArsAstronautica – because I didn’t know St Wendelin):
http://www.kingrichards.com/St-Wendelin-of-Trier/product/2840/Carved-Wood-Statue-of-St-Wendelin-of-Trier/
Image search shows Shutterstock having a holy card of St. Wendelin, where he has the exact same attributes and pose. Plus cattle.
St. Roche.
Footwear is identical in this one
:
Catholic Encyclopedia ; St Wendelin of Trier
St. Wendelin, sometimes shown with a bull, and always with a spade or some kind of farm tool.
No idea but I enjoy playing this game every time I visit a new church!
St. Agnes…have to go with the NY Crimes Crosswords Puzzles.
can i have three guesses?
http://catholicsaints.info/saint-wendelin/
http://catholicsaints.info/saint-drogo/
http://catholicsaints.info/saint-benezet/
Based on the clothes, lamb, and punch, my thought was also David, but doing some image searches, St. Wendalin definitely seems to have been frequently portrayed in a very similar manner. I’d never heard of him, but looking him up, he was reputed to be the son of a king, which would explain the fine clothes.
That should have been clothes, lamb, and *pouch*. Sorry about that.
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At first St Rocco, but he has shiny tights! So it’s not him… he has a shovel to boot.
Great game Father, has us expanding our encyclopedia brains once again!
https://www.sthenrycluster.com/parishes/saint-wendelin/
https://www.sthenrycluster.com/nggallery/thumbnails/page/2
Definitely St Wendelin, been to the parish by that name several time, statue looks exactly the same, about 15 miles from me, part of the “Land of the Cross Tipped Churches” tour
Ohio Byways
http://gis3.dot.state.oh.us/ScenicByways/LCC.html
If you go to the last site listed look for st Joseph #9 on the list, explains my handle. Yeah I’m proud of my area, shoot me
This is why everyone should have a copy of Saints: A Visual Guide. It’s essentially a bird book for iconography.
My great-great grandfather was named Wendelin. He was from the Alsace or nearer to the Black Forest in Germany. We don’t know exactly. Anyway, there are several churches dedicated to St. Wendelin in the area and so I assume that immigrants from the area landed in Ohio….. My great great grandfather finally made his way to Washington, IN. But maybe he first landed in Ohio????
Certain that I am wrong as some of you are mentioning Saints that I am not familiar with. My guess was David.
Another famous Wendelin is our own Bishop Emeritus of Lincoln. the Great Fabian Wendelin Bruskewitz. ad multos annos!
This is St Tarsisius. Yes the clothing is not of the era, but I stand by it. [Hmmmmm]
Hyacinth of Lithuania/Poland?
I think it’s St. Genevieve.
Jennieprater, you have a good eye for some of the details – before I realized it is actually St. Wendelin, I was about to say St. Genevieve. One of the tell-tales is the statue has a (mid 19th-century version of a) male face. Good, thinking, though. St. Genevieve is a great saint! Perhaps especially so for our times.
ALL: I think we have here
St. Wendelin of Trier.
Perfect. Thank you.
There’s a St. Wendelin’s parish in Shannon, IL, which is also in a very rural area like the parish where the photo was taken.