Vintage and New Catholic Holy Child of Atocha, Saints Religious Medals Bracelet

History of El Santo Nino de Atocha (The Holy Child of Atocha)

The devotion to El Santo Nino de Atocha originated in Spain. Its origin may be related to Our Lady of Atocha, in Madrid, Spain, who is mentioned in the "Cantigas" of King Alphonse the Wise in the 13th century. During medieval times, the Moors held large areas and battles between the Christians and Moors were commonplace. The Moors invaded the town of Atocha. Following a certain battle, the victorious Moors held a great many Christians captive, and prevented the adult villagers from visiting as well as bringing the prisoners food or water. Fearing for the lives of the prisoners, their families stormed heaven with prayers for relief. One day, a child appeared, dressed as a pilgrim of that period, carrying a basket of food and a gourd of water. The Moors allowed the child to bring food and water each day. The prisoners were fed, but the basket and gourd remained full. The child was not known to the Christians nor to the Moors, so the people concluded that the child Jesus.

In artwork, the Holy Child often wears a brimmed hat with a plume and a cloak or cape ornate with the St. James shell. (During the Crusades, scallop shells were the symbol of holy pilgrimages and one European variety is still referred to as "the pilgrim" or "St. James' shell." Poets have written about their beauty and artists have admired their symmetry and grace.) In his left hand, He carries a pilgrim's staff to the gourd of water is fastened, a pair of shackles, and a few spears of wheat. In his right hand, He holds a basket which generally contains bread or flowers. He either wears sandals or is barefoot. The Child is said to roam the hills and valleys, particularly at night, bringing aid and comfort to the needy, and thereby wearing out his shoes. He is usually shown seated.

The original statue of the Holy Child of Atocha was imported from Spain and now resides in the little town of Fresnillo, Mexico. El Santo Nino de Atocha is the patron saint of those unjustly imprisoned. He also protects travelers and rescues people in danger.

I created this beautiful and unique bracelet honoring Santo Nino de Atocha with a nostalgic feel and look to it using vintage glass pearls and a beautiful and unique wooden pendant with His image and adorned it with vintage and new rhinestones and lace.

I also used vintage and new medals including St. Padre Pio, St. Francis of Assisi, Our Lady of Lourdes, St. Michael, Our Lady of Sorrows with Ecce Homo and others.

I love the outcome of all combined and how the pendant just came together. 

Virgencita - In the Hearts of All Children

Sometime ago I came across Our Lady of Guadalupe in a child form, which I loved and I even bought some charms to make my granddaughter a necklace but they were made of brass and very small, she didn't think anything of it.

Several weeks ago my daughter-in-law was sharing her idea of creating whimsical Kawaii style jewelry for kids and adults and I have always been supportive of all she does because she is very talented and her inspiration are her girls, my granddaughters, so I knew they will be beautiful and one day we came across an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe "Virgencita" and she just fell in love with her and she is very devoted to Our Blessed Mother and she was inspired to create jewelry honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe as "Virgencita".

Incredible enough we came across several Virgencitas for her to start creating her pieces and one day, we decided to make our own flowers to add to them when the inspiration came to create Our own "Virgencita" including the flowers and as we were creating them, I received a message that "She, Our Lady of Guadalupe, wants to be in all children's hearts" and we were more joyous on creating Her as a child like.

As we finished a couple of them, my 3 yr. old granddaughter, which had not known about Our Lady of Guadalupe, she gasped when she saw one and held her and she told my daughter-in-law "MOM THATS THE LADY OF GUA-DA-LUUUUPE!" and immediately wanted a necklace with one and that made us rejoice more that how a child that young could feel the joy of holding Our Lady of Guadalupe in a child like manner and identify with her, it was amazing and beautiful experience.

My daughter-in-law has launched her own designs with Our Virgencita in her Etsy shop

INGENIOUS YA-YA DESIGNS

These are some of her designs

   

These top three are necklaces of Our Lady "Virgencita"

This design is a cuff bracelet 

This is a necklace of Padre (Father) Eusebio Francisco Kino, Tucson's First European Explorer

Since she being from San Xavier and have lived there all her life.

Being part of this community is amazing and focuses a lot on the foundation of our most visited Church, Mission San Xavier del Bac, which was founded in 1692 by Father Kino.

You can read more on Father Kino here on this link, http://tucson-infonet.com/kino.html

She did a remarkable job creating Padre Kino herself with all the details.

She has been inspired to create Saints as well and Mother Theresa.

I was so inspired by her creations I wanted to create a bracelet myself and I listed it in my Etsy Shop

 Angelo's Treasures.  

Catholic Virgin Mary OL Fatima , Saints Religious Medals Charm Bracelet

 Dear Lady of Fatima,

We come on bended knee,

To beg Your intercession,

For peace and unity.

Dear Mary, won't You show us,

The right and shining way,

We pledge our love and offer You,

A Rosary each day.

You promised at Fatima,

Each time that You appeared,

To help us if we pray to You,

To banish war and fear.

Dear Lady, on First Saturdays,

We ask Your guiding hand,

For grace and guidance here on earth,

And protection for our land.

In honor of Our Lady of Fatima I created this bracelet using a stunning cameo of Our Lady of Fatima adorned with pink Czech. rhinestones fit for a Queen.

I wanted this cameo to be the main emphasis, therefore, I didn't add any other colors except pink and white to make the cameo stand out even more.

I also added a medal of Our Lady of Miraculous Medal from Germany, a St. Philomena medal and an Immaculate Heart of Mary and Sacred Heart of Jesus medal from Mexico, St. Therese, St. Anthony, St. Lazarus, St. Dominic with Queen of Most Holy Rosary, St Cecilia, Our Lady of Providence and St. Dymphna.

Our Lady of Victory Necklace

Today  I finished this beautiful necklace honoring Our Lady of Victory.  For some time now I had been wanting to create a necklace with turquoise and today that inspiration came to me using a beautiful and unique cross which I added a beautiful figural medal of Our Lady of Victory with Baby Jesus.

To this necklace I added large turquoise, large rough Garnet beads and darker stones from turquoise stones making it more unique

I listed this necklace at my Etsy Shop, Angelo's Treasures http://www.etsy.com/shop/AngelosTreasures?ref=si_shop

Catholic Relic Touched to the Holy Sudarium of Oviedo Reliquary Locket

Today I was inspired to create locket shrines including this very special locket reliquary.

It's a very special locket reliquary that includes a special relic touched to the Holy Sudarium of Oviedo.

Inside locket I added the special relic medal and included beautiful images from antique Holy cards one being from Our Lady of Sorrows and other of Sacred Heart of Jesus.  These images are transferred onto fabric giving it a look and feel of canvas.






















Outside locket I added a beautiful picture of St. Therese adorned with pink Czech. rhinestones and suspended by one large glass pearl

Our Lady of Guadalupe Charm Bracelet

Feast Day: December 12

PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE

O Virgin of Guadalupe,

Mother of the Americas,

grant to our homes the grace of loving

and respecting life in its beginnings,

with the same love with which

You conceived in Your womb 

the life of the Son of God.

Blessed Virgin Mary,

Mother of Fair Love,

protect our families so that 

they may always be united 

and bless the upbringing of our children.

Our hope, look upon us with pity,

teach is to go continually to Jesus,

and if we fall 

help us to rise again and return to Him

through the confession of our faults 

and our sins in the Sacrament of penance, 

which gives peace to the soul.

We beg You to grant us a great love 

of all the holy Sacraments,

which are, as it were,

the signs that Your Son left us on earth.

Thus, Most Holy Mother,

with the peace of God in our consciences,

with our hearts free from evil and hatred,

we will be able to bring to all others 

true joy and peace,

which come to us from your Son, 

our Lord Jesus Christ,

who with the Father and the Holy Spirit,

lives and reigns for ever and ever.

Amen.

(Pope John Paul II.)

I created this beautiful bracelet honoring Our Humble Lady of Guadalupe using a very unique cross from Italy depicting Our Lady of Guadalupe on center, Crucified Christ, St. Juan Diego and Angels .

Catholic medals I used are St. Cecilia, St. Joan of Arc, St. Martin of Tours, St. Rocco, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Sacred Heart of Jesus and others.

I used a variety of flowers including a beautiful Jade gemstone Calla Lilly and Millefiori beads.

Virgin Mary Miraculous Medal Religious Altered Art Necklace

Prayer to the Mother of Goodness,

Love and Mercy

Queen of  Peace

O Mother mine,

Mother of goodness, love and mercy,

 I love You infinitely

 and I offer myself to You.  

By means of Your goodness, 

Your love and Your grace,

 save me, I desire to be Yours.

I love You infinitely,

 and desire You to protect me 

from the depth of my heart I pray 

You, Mother of goodness, 

give me Your goodness.  

Let me gain Heaven by means of it.  

I pray You, by Your infinite love,

to give me the grace, 

so that I may love every man, 

as You have loved Jesus Christ.

I pray You to give me the grace 

to be merciful towards You

 I offer myself to You completely 

and desire that You follow my every step,

 because You are full of grace, 

and I desire that I will never forget this, 

and if, by chance, I should lose grace, 

I pray You to restore it to me once more.  

Amen.

Another Nostalgic inspired altered art shrine-style necklace honoring Our Beautiful Lady of Miraculous Medal.

I was blessed to be able to obtain this unique statue of Our Blessed Mother and I hand painted it and created this shrine necklace surrounding the statue with vintage and new embellishments, many rhinestones and pearls.

The necklace part are many, what I call, orphan beads, which include glass pearls and Czech. crystals.

Honoring St. Therese

Honoring St. Therese

This week I was inspired by St. Therese creating these beautiful creations using a vintage medal for the bracelet and a beautiful porcelain cameo for the altered art locket shrine necklace.

For this bracelet I used a vintage medal of St. Therese adorned with Czech. rhinestones and a large coral rose.  Other Catholic medals used are Our Lady of Loretto, St. Rita, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Sacred Heart of Jesus, Our Lady of Perpetual Help with St. Gerard, Mother Theresa and St. Barbara also using beautiful lampwork glass heart beads. 

For this beautiful locket shrine I used a stunning porcelain cameo adorned with Czech. rhinestones 

Inside locket shrine I used a beautiful image of Madonna and Child, a tiny pewter pocket statue of St. Jude, Vintage medal of Our Lady of Miraculous Medal and vintage rhinestones.

This is a special shrine 

May St. Therese always shower you with roses 

"My Guardian Angel" Catholic Religious Medal Charm Bracelet

St. Gertrude's Guardian Angel Prayer

O most holy angel of God, appointed by God to be my guardian, I give you thanks for all the benefits which you have ever bestowed on me in body and in soul. I praise and glorify you that you condescended to assist me with such patient fidelity, and to defend me against all the assaults of my enemies. Blessed be the hour in which you were assigned me for my guardian, my defender and my patron. In acknowledgement and return for all your loving ministries to me, I offer you the infinitely precious and noble heart of Jesus, and firmly purpose to obey you henceforward, and most faithfully to serve my God. Amen. 

St. Jude Catholic Bracelet

PRAYER TO ST. JUDE

St. Jude, friend to those in need,

 I am weary from grief,

without joy, without hope,

struggling through the dark night of the soul.

I turn to you, my most trusted friend.

Take away this emptiness and the pain of my broken heart.

In your compassion, wipe away the tears 

and carry me to a place of peace.

Too long have I been blind to the

goodness of God's world.

Heal me.

I yearn to feel, to bathe in light and joy.

Envelop me in brightness,

and do not hold back.  

And I promise, if you should see me fit

to receive these gifts, I will share them always.

Amen 

Virgin Mary Catholic Bracelet

I Love vintage and love using vintage medals on some of my bracelets. I love the feel and essence of each piece from time passed.

On this bracelet I used a vintage medal of Virgin Mary with Baby Jesus and Sacred Heart of Jesus on reverse side and used as well other vintage pieces including an older ornate crucifix and using some older pearls that gives the effect of vintage pieces.

Cameo Catholic Brooches

I was inspired to create these brooches using these beautiful porcelain cameos. One cameo depicting Our Blessed Mother with Baby Jesus and the other with Infant of Prague using a vintage raw brass setting and adorning them with crystals and flower.

I wanted to try something different besides bracelets and necklaces and I really loved the outcome of these pieces

Our Lady of Lourdes Locket Shrine Rosary Religious Necklace

O Holy Virgin,  

in the midst of Your days of glory,  

do not forget the sorrows of this earth.  

Cast a merciful glance upon those who are suffering

 struggling against difficulties, 

 with their lips constantly pressed 

against life’s bitter cup.  

Have pity on those who love each other

 and are separated. 

Have pity on our rebellious hearts.

 Have pity on our weak faith. 

Have pity on those who weep, 

on those who pray, 

on those who fear.

 Grant hope and peace to all. 

 Amen.

I created this locket shrine necklace honoring Our Beautiful Lady of Lourdes using a vintage rosary and creating it as a necklace.

Inside locket I added a tiny figural image of Our Lady of Lourdes a vintage crucifix and a beautiful acrylic rose and a beautiful color image of St. Rose of Lima.

Today I had a wonderful experience with my 2 yr old granddaughter. I have a picture of Our Lady of Lourdes in my room and my granddaughter loved it and wanted me to take her to Wal-Mart to buy her one, she thinks Wal-Mart may sell them and I explained to her they don't have them there, she then told me to take her to Target to find one, that just filled me with so much joy that she expressed so much love for Our Lady of Lourdes.

Virgin Mary Locket Shrine Religious Necklace

Vintage and nostalgic jewelry are my favorites. I just love the feel and look of said jewelry and when I feel that special nostalgic feeling I am inspired to create a piece with that essence and look to it.

On this necklace I used a beautiful print on fabric of an antique Holy Card surrounded by a

vintage frame with pearls and adding a special spiritual enhancement, I added a unique

vintage brass cherub to the frame of the picture.

Inside locket you will find special sacred treasures as it is a tiny vintage hand painted pocket

statue of Sacred Heart of Jesus, tiny medal of Our Lady of Guadalupe a vintage rhinestone, glass heart and a beautiful picture of St. Therese in fabric

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Bracelet

Thou who, with special mercy, 

 look upon those clothed 

in Thy beloved Habit,  

cast a glance of pity upon me.

  Fortify my weakness with Thy strength;  

enlighten the darkness 

of my mind with Thy wisdom;  

increase my faith, 

 hope and charity.  

Assist me during life,  

console me by Thy presence at my death,  

and present me

 to the August trinity

 as Thy devoted child, 

 that I may bless thee 

for all eternity in Paradise. 

 Amen. 

I truly enjoyed creating this special bracelet honoring Our Lady of Mt. Carmel. Loved the black lace and I combined it with a cream color ribbon and the combination just appeals like an older bracelet. I love how it gives it an appearance of a bracelet that might of been worn many years ago.

I used a vintage medal of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and oxidized Italian medals including Our Lady of Medjugorje, Holy Child of Atocha, St. Therese, St. Raphael and others. Includes a vintage yellow Lucite embellishment and acrylic roses.

Virgin Mary Miraculous Medal Religious Bracelet

O Virgin Mother of God, Mary Immaculate,  

We dedicate and consecrate ourselves to You 
 under the title 
of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal. 
 May this Medal be for each one of us a sure sign 
 of Your affection for us 
 and a constant reminder of our duties toward You. 
 Ever while wearing it, 
 may we be blessed by Your loving protection  
and preserved in the grace of Your Son. 
 O Most Powerful Virgin,
 Mother of Our Savior, 
 keep us close to You every moment of our lives. 
 Obtain for us, Your children, 
 the grace of a happy death; 
 so that in union with You, 
 we may enjoy the bliss of Heaven forever.
   Amen

Every time I feel the intercession of Our Blessed Mother or there is a problem arising in my life, Our Beautiful Lady of the Miraculous Medal comes to me in so many ways, specially random medals or prayer cards in the mail and I feel so blessed to be able to have that reassurance that She knows my afflictions and letting me know She is right there with me. Thank you Blessed Mother.

I wanted to create a bracelet that brings love and peace to the wearer, that love and peace I feel when I receive one of Her signs.

I used a beautiful vintage Mother of Pearl medal of Our Lady of Miraculous Medal, a piece of a broken rosary, a beautiful double sided color medal of Our Lady of Guadalupe and a very unique handcrafted medal of Our Lady of Sorrows, picture from an antique Holy card transferred to fabric encased on plastic dome and many other Italian medals including Our Lady of Fatima, St. Therese, St. Martin of Tours, Archangel St. Raphael, Archangel St. Gabriel, Holy Child of Atocha, St. John the Baptist and St. Frances Mother Cabrini.

Beautiful misc. blue colored glass beads and pearls.

May you always feel Her Love and Presence

St. Therese, Saints Religious Medal Charm Bracelet

"The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily
do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm.
If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness."
— St. Thérèse de Lisieux

I feel blessed to be able to find such a unique St. Therese medal with crushed roses on the reverse side, it is such a beautiful and meaningful medal.

I also included in this bracelet a color image medal of St. Therese and other Catholic including a vintage St. Anthony medal, St. Bernadette, Virgin Mary, Immaculate Heart, St. Benedict and others.

Embracing the medals I added beautiful lampwork and pearl beads including a stunning handmade polymer rose.