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St Fiacre was a 7th century Irish saint who later built a monastery in France. He is the patron saint of STD sufferers, and gardening. He is typically depicted with a shovel as it pertains to his miracle, which was to turn over a prodigious amount of land after someone offered to give him as much land as he could turn in a day. He was assigned STDs, strangely, because a woman questioned his miracle and he henceforth banned all women from his monastery. I painted this tongue-in-cheek icon after my husband took a commission to paint a real icon of St. Mark, for a Catholic men’s group. I looked up saints to see if there were any unusual ones and Fiacre presented himself. I mix Eastern Orthodox iconography style with Roman Catholic use of Latin. The Latin writing on the painting translates to the name of the painting- Never Never Forget the Condoms. The HIV crisis gives the shovels a double meaning. The painting is on an 11 x 14 canvas board, but with the gilded frame the piece measures 15.5” x 18.5”. The shovels are Fimo and wood, and the embellishments include glass beads and mother-of-pearl. The piece also includes my signature glow paint so it is a different work when the lights go out.
St Fiacre was a 7th century Irish saint who later built a monastery in France. He is the patron saint of STD sufferers, and gardening. He is typically depicted with a shovel as it pertains to his miracle, which was to turn over a prodigious amount of land after someone offered to give him as much land as he could turn in a day. He was assigned STDs, strangely, because a woman questioned his miracle and he henceforth banned all women from his monastery. I painted this tongue-in-cheek icon after my husband took a commission to paint a real icon of St. Mark, for a Catholic men’s group. I looked up saints to see if there were any unusual ones and Fiacre presented himself. I mix Eastern Orthodox iconography style with Roman Catholic use of Latin. The Latin writing on the painting translates to the name of the painting- Never Never Forget the Condoms. The HIV crisis gives the shovels a double meaning. The painting is on an 11 x 14 canvas board, but with the gilded frame the piece measures 15.5” x 18.5”. The shovels are Fimo and wood, and the embellishments include glass beads and mother-of-pearl. The piece also includes my signature glow paint so it is a different work when the lights go out.
St Fiacre was a 7th century Irish saint who later built a monastery in France. He is the patron saint of STD sufferers, and gardening. He is typically depicted with a shovel as it pertains to his miracle, which was to turn over a prodigious amount of land after someone offered to give him as much land as he could turn in a day. He was assigned STDs, strangely, because a woman questioned his miracle and he henceforth banned all women from his monastery. I painted this tongue-in-cheek icon after my husband took a commission to paint a real icon of St. Mark, for a Catholic men’s group. I looked up saints to see if there were any unusual ones and Fiacre presented himself. I mix Eastern Orthodox iconography style with Roman Catholic use of Latin. The Latin writing on the painting translates to the name of the painting- Never Never Forget the Condoms. The HIV crisis gives the shovels a double meaning. The painting is on an 11 x 14 canvas board, but with the gilded frame the piece measures 15.5” x 18.5”. The shovels are Fimo and wood, and the embellishments include glass beads and mother-of-pearl. The piece also includes my signature glow paint so it is a different work when the lights go out.
St Fiacre was a 7th century Irish saint who later built a monastery in France. He is the patron saint of STD sufferers, and gardening. He is typically depicted with a shovel as it pertains to his miracle, which was to turn over a prodigious amount of land after someone offered to give him as much land as he could turn in a day. He was assigned STDs, strangely, because a woman questioned his miracle and he henceforth banned all women from his monastery. I painted this tongue-in-cheek icon after my husband took a commission to paint a real icon of St. Mark, for a Catholic men’s group. I looked up saints to see if there were any unusual ones and Fiacre presented himself. I mix Eastern Orthodox iconography style with Roman Catholic use of Latin. The Latin writing on the painting translates to the name of the painting- Never Never Forget the Condoms. The HIV crisis gives the shovels a double meaning. The painting is on an 11 x 14 canvas board, but with the gilded frame the piece measures 15.5” x 18.5”. The shovels are Fimo and wood, and the embellishments include glass beads and mother-of-pearl. The piece also includes my signature glow paint so it is a different work when the lights go out.
St Fiacre was a 7th century Irish saint who later built a monastery in France. He is the patron saint of STD sufferers, and gardening. He is typically depicted with a shovel as it pertains to his miracle, which was to turn over a prodigious amount of land after someone offered to give him as much land as he could turn in a day. He was assigned STDs, strangely, because a woman questioned his miracle and he henceforth banned all women from his monastery. I painted this tongue-in-cheek icon after my husband took a commission to paint a real icon of St. Mark, for a Catholic men’s group. I looked up saints to see if there were any unusual ones and Fiacre presented himself. I mix Eastern Orthodox iconography style with Roman Catholic use of Latin. The Latin writing on the painting translates to the name of the painting- Never Never Forget the Condoms. The HIV crisis gives the shovels a double meaning. The painting is on an 11 x 14 canvas board, but with the gilded frame the piece measures 15.5” x 18.5”. The shovels are Fimo and wood, and the embellishments include glass beads and mother-of-pearl. The piece also includes my signature glow paint so it is a different work when the lights go out.
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St Fiacre was a 7th century Irish saint who later built a monastery in France. He is the patron saint of STD sufferers, and gardening. He is typically depicted with a shovel as it pertains to his miracle, which was to turn over a prodigious amount of land after someone offered to give him as much land as he could turn in a day. He was assigned STDs, strangely, because a woman questioned his miracle and he henceforth banned all women from his monastery. I painted this tongue-in-cheek icon after my husband took a commission to paint a real icon of St. Mark, for a Catholic men’s group. I looked up saints to see if there were any unusual ones and Fiacre presented himself. I mix Eastern Orthodox iconography style with Roman Catholic use of Latin. The Latin writing on the painting translates to the name of the painting- Never Never Forget the Condoms. The HIV crisis gives the shovels a double meaning. The painting is on an 11 x 14 canvas board, but with the gilded frame the piece measures 15.5” x 18.5”. The shovels are Fimo and wood, and the embellishments include glass beads and mother-of-pearl. The piece also includes my signature glow paint so it is a different work when the lights go out.

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