Saint Margaret
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She stands over a thing she was lately inside. The dragon swallowed her whole; she made the sign of the cross and it burst asunder.
Dying, she prayed that God bless whoever in childbirth or other peril should read, write, or press to their body a copy of her story. She is the patron of women in childbirth still — a saint whose miracle is coming out alive.
Raphael designed her; the painting is generally given to Giulio Romano's hand. Leo X sent it to Francis I in 1518. Pope Gelasius had declared the legend apocryphal in 494.
Sources: Louvre object record: attribution (Raphael and Giulio Romano), medium/date, and the sole provenance sentence 'gift of Pope Leo X to King Francis I in 1518' · Royal Collection Trust, "St Margaret," RCIN 851502 · "St. Margaret," The Catholic Encyclopedia, New Advent · Richard Stracke, "Saint Margaret of Antioch: The Iconography," Christian Iconography (Augusta University)
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 20,990 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.