St. Barbara With Artillery (M 007) COLLECTION

In this image, a cutting probably from an antique nineteenth-century Lives of the Saints book, St. Barbara of Nicomedia (3rd-4th century) is depicted with another of her attributes: a cannon and cannonball pyramid. St. Barbara is patron of field artillery and artillerymen. For a brief explanation of St. Barbara's association with the military and ordnance, see catholicsaints.info/saint-barbara/ + Feast: December 4 + This image has been lightly restored. The original, unretouched digital file can be found at the website of The Wellcome Collection, London. It has been reproduced here under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0): Throughout, a distracting horizontal white scratch in St. Barbara’s red robe has been retouched. Additionally, in this product line, the image may have been cropped and, via layers, furnished with the saint’s name in script or on a nameplate and/or bordered as warranted by the designer. No endorsement by the Wellcome Collection is implied by this colored wood engraving’s usage.