St. Rose of Lima (BK 020) Poster

St. Rose wanted to become a nun, but her father refused to allow it. Eventually, however, she was permitted to join the Third Order of St. Dominic to live out her apostolate at home in a small room and a walled garden with a secluded grotto. In the garden, she raised flowers and vegetables to sell at market helping out her family and giving to the poor from the proceeds. It is this walled garden setting that forms the backdrop of the image here. + Image Credit (BK 020): Antique image of St. Rose of Lima from a late 19th-century chromolithographic devotional print with gilt accents (Dominican Series, No. 10), originally published by B. Kühlen, at Mönchengladbach, Germany, from the designer’s private collection of religious ephemera. + Feast: August 23