Gaspar Ginés
Cristo de los Afligidos ("Christ of the Afflicted")

1635
Divine Savior Collegiate Church, Seville, Spain

According to the label in the church the figure was sculpted for the city's Brotherhood of the Souls in Purgatory, and those souls are the "afflicted" of the santo's name.

Very similar santos may be found in Oaxaca, Mexico, usually wearing the same purple robe, a headband-shaped crown of thorns, and sometimes a triple-sunburst halo like the one seen here.

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Photographed at the church by Richard Stracke, shared under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license.