Juan Antonio de Frias y Escalante

The canvas has an old relining which is still effective. The paint surface is dirty but sound and under a discoloured varnish. Scattered retouchings flouresce under UV light. Offered in a carved wood frame with some knocks.
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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.