Statuary Guide
Mission San Xavier del Bac

Statuary Guide - Front Entrance
Mission San Xavier del Bac

 

 

 

Mission San Xavier del Bac

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Instructions To Print San Xavier Statuary Guide - Two Page Brochure
Landscape Paper Orientation

The guide can be printed out as a two sided bifold brochure. In landscape mode the two pdf pages can be printed out on their respective sides on a letter sized piece of paper. The outside page has the Front Entrance as the front page and the East Chapel as the back page. The inside page on the other side has the West Chapel and Sanctuary. It is important that the printer is set to landscape mode. To print, click on San Xavier Statuary Guide immediately below. The images for Guide are immediately below the box.

Instructions To Print San Xavier Statuary Guide - Each Page
Portrait Paper Orientation - 4 pages

To print each page, click
San Xavier Statuary Guide 4 Pages

 
Print Individual Pages of Statuary Guide
Click Page Links Below With Statute Identifications

 

Front Facade Diagram

Top Row
1.   St. Francis Xavier
2.   Jesus, Parable of the Vineyard
3.   IHS, Monogram of Jesus
4.   AMR, Monogram of Mary, "Ave Maria Regina " ("Hail Queen Mary")

Middle Row
5.   Mouse
6.   Heralding Lions
7.   Emblem of the Franciscans
8.   Cat
9.   St. Barbara
10. Scalloped Shell of Pilgrimage
11.  St. Cecilia

Ground Level Row
12.  St. Catherine of Alexandria
13.  St. Lucy of Syracuse

To view and print Front Facade Diagram with statue identifications in pdf format, click Front Facade

Sanctuary Diagram

Top Row
14. St. Lawrence of Rome             
15. God The Father
16. St. Stephen, First Martyr

Middle Row
17. St. Peter the Apostle
18. Mary, The Immaculate Conception
19. St. Paul, Apostle
20. Great Angels ( 37 in West Chapel and 57 in East Chapel)

Ground Level Row
21. St. Bartholomew, Apostle  (near northwest corner) ( 46 in West Chapel)
22. St. James the Greater, Aposlte  (47 in West Chapel)
23. St. Simon, Apostle
24. Heralding Lions
25. St. Francis Xavier
26. The Tabernacle
27. St. Andrew, Apostle
28. St. Matthias, Apostle (28 in East Chapel)
29. St. Ignatius Loyola  (58 in East Chapel)

To view and print Sanctuary Diagram with statue identifications in pdf format, click Sanctuary

East Chapel Diagram

Top Row
48. St. Agnes of Prague                     
49. St. Elizabeth of Portugal 
50. St. Clare of Assisi
51. St. Elizabeth of Hungary

Middle Row
52. St. Benedict of Palermo
53. Blessed Bernadine of Feltre
54. The Crucifxion, Mary and St. John the Evangalist
55. St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen

Ground Level Row
56. St. Matthias,Apostle (28 in Sanctuary)
57. Great Angel
58. St. Ignatius (29 in Sanctuary)
58A. Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha (not numbered: statue between 58 and 59)
59. Mary: The Immaculate Conception
60. St. Didacus of Alacala (San Diego)
61. Mary, Our Mother of Sorrows
62. St. Anthony of Padua
63. St. Jude Thadeus, Apostle (near pulpit)

To view and print East Chapel Diagram with statue identifications in pdf format, click East Chapel

West Chapel Diagram

Top Row
30. St. Gertrude the Great
31. St. Teresa of Avila
32. St. Rita of Cascia 
32 A.  St Colette  (not numbered: statue above St. Dominic number 36)             

Middle Row
33. St. Peter Regalatus
34. St. Francis of Assisi
35. St. Peter of Alcantara
36. St. Dominic with his dog
37. Great Angel

Ground Level Row
38. St. John the Evangelist or St. Thomas, Apostles
39. St. Phillip, Apostle
40. St. Ildephonsus
41. San Cayetano (statue now at Tumacacori National Historical Park)
42. Jesus, Suffering Saviour
43. St. Francis Xavier: reclining                     
44. St.  Bonaventure
45. St. Joseph
46. St. Bartholomew, Apostle (21 in Sanctuary)
47. St. James the Greater, Apostle (22 in Sanctuary)

To view and print West Chapel Diagram with statue identifications in pdf format, click West Chapel

Statue Locations Not in Diagrams

32A. St Colette: West Chapel above St. Dominic (36)
58A. Saint Kateri Tekakwitha: East Chapel between St. Ignatius of Loyola ( 58)
         and Blessed Virgin Mary: (59)
64.   St. Matthew the Apostle: Nave's west wall first statue north of entrance
65.   St. James the Lessor the Apostle: Nave's east wall first statue north of entrance

Orientation

Numbered statues in diagrams start from top left and end at ground level right.

Duplicate numbered statues:
St. Bartholomew  (near Sanctuary's northwest corner: numbered 21 in Sanctuary diagram and 46 in West Chapel diagram)
St Ignatius Loyola (near Sanctuary's northeast corner: numbered 29 in Sanctuary diagram and 58 in East  Chapel diagram)
Great Angels (numbered 20,  left angel 37 and right angel 57)

Acknowledgments

Statuary Locator Diagrams by Edith Hamlin from "Mission San Xavier del Bac"    (San Francisco: 5 Associates, 1954)  Statue Identifications by Bernard L. Fontana from "A Gift of Angels: The Art of Mission San Xavier del Bac" (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2010). Other publications "Mission San Xavier: A Story of Saint and Angels, Art and Artists" by Edna San Miguel (Tucson: Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 2011) and "San Xavier : The Spirit Endures" by Kathleen Walker (Phoenix:  Arizona Highways Press, 1998)