St. Gertrude

17th century
Wood, polychrome
Museum of the Church of San Paio (Pelagius)
Santiago de Compostela, Spain

This statue of St. Gertrude statue has the usual attribute of a heart on the saint's breast, but like the other Gertrude image in the museum it adds an image of the Christ Child perched atop the heart.

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Photographed at the museum by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.