Oil on canvas
Mission Santa Barbara, California

The label at the mission identifies the saints holding the Virgin's cloak as Joseph (note the lily stalk) and Teresa of Avila (in the habit of a Carmelite nun). St. Joseph was the patron saint of the first convent established by Teresa as part of her reform of the Carmelite order.

Below the main figures, the souls in Purgatory call on the Virgin for her intercession.

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