A wood sculpture showing the Saint in prayer, dressed in a white tunic with fine, rigid pleats. Over the tunic, there is a hood placed across his back, buttoned in the front and falling over his arms. The expression is serene, and the figure is tonsured, with hair suggested by parallel furrows, protruding ears, and long eye lashes. His hands are placed with only the tips of the fingers touching one another, as is common in the Indo-Portuguese Marian imagery.
This sculpture may be related to a group of the collection of the Navy Museum¹, representing St. Francis Xavier, St. Philip Neri, Father Luís de Fróis and Queen St. Isabel, taken from the Diu Museum in 1956².
A painting presented in London³, in 2002, identified as St. Carlos Borromeu, attributed to the school of Lombardy of the mid-17th century reveals similarities in form and physiognomy with those of the sculpture described here.

¹ De Goa a Lisboa, Coord. Maria Helena Mendes Pinto, ed. IPM, Europália, Museu Machado de Castro, 1991, cats. 34-35, pp. 82-83.
² Manuel Castilho, Imitando o Divino Mestre por terras do Indostão, Lisbon, 2002, cat. 18, p. 36.
³ Old Master Pictures and Drawings, Christie’s, 13 de Dezembro de 2002, Londres, lote 233, p. 175.