The chosen Saint's

Saint Jerome was chosen for one of his kinetic sculptures.
Jerome is known as a Doctor of the Church, he was born in Dalmatia and travelled to Rome to learn Latin and Greek. He was ordained at the age of 29 and later retreated to the Syrian Desert to live as a hermit, where he fasted, prayed and beat himself, in order to purge his mind of impure thoughts.
A legend that became attached to him, tells the story of the lion with a thorn in

its paw. The other monks in the monastery fled but Jerome removed the thorn and the lion became his devoted pet. Jerome is represented in art in a variety of ways, often accompanied by his lion. He is either shown in the desert, stripped to the waste, contemplating a crucifix while beating himself with a rock, or else depicted as a scholar dressed in the red robes of a cardinal.  

Saint Catherine of Alexandria was also chosen to be one of his sculptures. 
Catherine was born in Alexandria, Egypt, the daughter of a pagan king and queen, Catherine dedicated her life to Christianity after she experienced a vision in which the Virgin Mary gave her to Christ in a mystical marriage. Maxentius then sent for 50 of the best philosophers and poets in the Empire to engage her in debate, but they were so impressed by Catherine that they were converted to Christianity, leading Maxentius to order that they be burnt alive. Catherine was then imprisoned but succeeded in converting some 200 Roman guards and the Emperor’s wife, who was duly executed after having her breasts torn off.
Maxentius then ordered Catherine’s torture and execution on a spiked wheel, but an angel descended from heaven and shattered the wheel. She was finally beheaded with a sword but instead of blood, milk flowed from her body and a miraculous oil with healing properties issued from her bones. Her body was then carried off by angels to Mount Sinai.

Catherine is nearly always represented with her wheel, either whole
or fragmentary, and often shown with a sword as a symbol of her decapitation. The subject of her mystic marriage was also very popular: the saint is often shown with the Virgin Mary and the Infant Christ, who places a ring onto her finger. 

Saint Francis of Assissi was chosen as one of the sculptures. 
Francis was born into a wealthy family, but after experiencing visions, against his father’s wishes he renounced his inheritance and gave away all of his worldly goods, including the clothes off his back. He took vows of poverty, chastity and obedience and lived among his disciples in Assissi, Italy.  
Francis travelled the country, preaching, experiencing visions and performing miracles. his sustained prayers led to a miracle in which the five wounds of Christ made when he was crucified – that is, the

holes made in his hands and feet and the lance wound on his side – were impressed upon Francis’s body so that he himself became Christ-like. These marks are known as his stigmata.
Francis can be recognised in art by his monk’s tonsure and plain brown habit with three knots, symbolising his three vows. He is differentiated from other Franciscan saints by the marks of the stigmata. 

Saint Peter Martyr was then chosen to be made as a kinetic sculpture. 
Born in Verona, Peter became a Dominican preacher. He was renowned for his orthodox zeal and determination to root out and mercilessly punish heretics. His preaching aroused a great deal of hostility and his was assassinated during an ambush. His head was split with an axe and stabbed in the side with a dagger. He is shown in art as wearing the traditional black and white habit of the Dominicans and, more remarkably, by the dagger or axe embedded in his head. 

Saint Apollonia was also created as a sculpture.
According to the Golden Legend, Apollonia was an aged virgin who was tortured by having her teeth beaten out. Later stories, however, preferred to describe her as a beautiful young woman whose teeth were extracted with pincers. Her depiction in art tends to favour this more romanticized version.

She is patron saint of dentists and those suffering from toothache. 

Saint Michael was used as part of the sculpture. 
Although an archangel, Michael was adopted by Christianity as a saint. In the Book of Revelation, he appears as the leader of the army of God in the final combat against the Devil and the rebel angels. The Golden Legend records the belief that the archangel Michael will call the dead to rise on the Day of Judgement. He is shown in art as an armoured warrior angel trampling on the devil and often holds a pair of scales, symbolising the judgement of souls. 

Saint Thomas was created as a sculpture.
According to the Book of John in the New Testament, ‘Doubting’ Thomas, as he has become known, did not believe the account of his fellow disciples that they had seen Jesus Christ, miraculously risen from the dead. Thomas said he would not believe until he had put his finger into Christ’s wounds. Accordingly, Christ appeared before him and invited Thomas to put his hand into the wound in his side.