ID: 901000539 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901000539	Record Type: Character/Person

	Ginés de la Jara, Saint (Christian character)

Note: Legendary saint of Spain; according to legend, after Ginés was decapitated in southern France, he picked up his head and tossed it into the Rhône River. Carried by the sea to the coast of southeastern Spain, it was retrieved and conserved as a relic. His story is likely based on a Roman genius or Muslim jinn; also associated with an ancient Carthaginian site dedicated to the god Ba'al.

Names:

	Ginés de la Jara, Saint (Christian character) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
	Saint Ginés de la Jara (Christian character) (English,A,N)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Christian iconography> (P)
		........<Christian characters> (P)
		............Ginés de la Jara, Saint (Christian character) (I)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... saint
	.....(people by state or condition, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	culture/religion is .... Christianity
	.....(Abrahamic religions, religions (belief systems, cultures), religions and religious concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	located in .... Cartagena
	..... ULAN Candidate

Sources:

	Ginés de la Jara, Saint (Christian character)
	................J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
	Saint Ginés de la Jara (Christian character)
	................J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-) http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/1101/luisa-roldan-called-la-roldana-polychromer-tomas-de-los-arcos-saint-gines-de-la-jara-spanish-about-1692/?dz=#6315572ae531bddf03fc8ba8fcf07a38c9c7a815