Saint Francis? ID help

is this metal figurine saint Francis? I couldnt find anything similar online. Thanks for any information.

 

that looks pretty recent.....

 

I don't believe this is Saint Francis.

 

It won't be St. Francis of Assisi because his attributes are: Franciscan habit, birds, stigmata, crucifix, book and skull. Your figure wears a mitre which is worn by bishops. (St. Francis was a friar.)

Debora

 

I agree, not Francis. This is a bishop who founded a church or an order (not Franciscans). There were several, I don't have time to look now, off to eat.

 

Priorities!

Debora

 

Is it perhaps Saint Augustine (of Hippo)?

Augustine of Hippo - Wikipedia

 

After hours of searching....saint ghislain thanks for your time to help!!

 

He was actually the first one I thought of. He is a Belgian saint, so familiar to me. But I thought nah, not really known outside the Low Countries.

Next time I'll say the first thing that comes into my mind. Or maybe not.

Yours could still be one of the other founding bishops though.

 

Many saints are holding a church in the Catholic iconography, the usual suspects though are St. Paul or St. Peter, founders of the church. He is wearing a mitre so I would say St. Peter, the first bishop of Rome.

 

Saint Willibrord?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willibrord

 

Or even St. Thomas a Becket possibly, murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170. ?

Quite agree with Komo, it does look quite modern.

 

I said that in 2020.......and still hold to my convictions !!!

 

Another zombie post?

As has been said, the mitre, cope and pastoral staff/crozier identify him as a bishop, but without more attributes it may be difficult to identify which Bishop is depicted. I believe the model of the church that such figures hold should resemble the actual church they founded/funded. The churches held by St. Ghislain and St. Willibrord are different in style.

 

Sometimes they resembled the church they founded, sometimes it was a generic church building.