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ANTIQUE 17TH CENTURY OUR LADY OF BETHLEHEM & SAINT ROSE OF LIMA BRONZE MEDAL
ANTIQUE 17TH CENTURY OUR LADY OF BETHLEHEM & SAINT ROSE OF LIMA BRONZE MEDAL
ANTIQUE 17TH CENTURY OUR LADY OF BETHLEHEM & SAINT ROSE OF LIMA BRONZE MEDAL
ANTIQUE 17TH CENTURY OUR LADY OF BETHLEHEM & SAINT ROSE OF LIMA BRONZE MEDAL
ANTIQUE 17TH CENTURY OUR LADY OF BETHLEHEM & SAINT ROSE OF LIMA BRONZE MEDAL
ANTIQUE 17TH CENTURY OUR LADY OF BETHLEHEM & SAINT ROSE OF LIMA BRONZE MEDAL
ANTIQUE 17TH CENTURY OUR LADY OF BETHLEHEM & SAINT ROSE OF LIMA BRONZE MEDAL
ANTIQUE 17TH CENTURY OUR LADY OF BETHLEHEM & SAINT ROSE OF LIMA BRONZE MEDAL
ANTIQUE 17TH CENTURY OUR LADY OF BETHLEHEM & SAINT ROSE OF LIMA BRONZE MEDAL

ANTIQUE 17TH CENTURY OUR LADY OF BETHLEHEM & SAINT ROSE OF LIMA BRONZE MEDAL

$ 68.63

Availability: 61 in stock
  • Modified Item: No
  • Religion: Christianity
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Holy See (Vatican City State)
  • Condition: All our listed items are original Christian devotionals. Some may have been cleaned or polished before their arrival, by their last caretaker. Their use is for personal devotion. Kindly look at all of the pictures. The pictures take precedence over the written description when in conflict with it
  • Handmade: Yes

    Description

    All our listed items are original Christian devotionals. Some may have been cleaned or polished before their arrival, by their last caretaker. Their use is for personal devotion.
    This medal is 1.5 inches long, weighs 19 grams, and was cast in Rome, as indicated by the hallmark. Its auction will benefit two Carmelite Convents who feed poor kids in South America. Its provenance is my mother’s estate collection. Some of her medals came from Spanish Colonial shipwrecks, long lost to history, as the medals were sometimes found along the shoreline.
    The information posted and photographs are from her own inventory notes, and we have no other information available other than her description.
    HISTORICAL REFERENCE
    Rose of Lima, T.O.S.D. (April 20, 1586 – August 24, 1617), was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, who became known for both her life of severe asceticism and her care of the needy of the city through her own private efforts. A lay member of the Dominican Order, she has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church, being the first person born in the Americas to be canonized as a saint. As a saint, Rose of Lima has been designated as a co-patroness of the Philippines along with Saint Pudentiana; both saints were both moved to second-class patronage in September 1942, by Pope Pius XII, but Rose remains the primary patroness of Peru and the indigenous natives of Latin America. Her image is featured on the highest denomination banknote of Peru.
    This medals dating can be confirmed on pages 2 & 3 of the book AN INTRODUCTION TO RELIGIOUS MEDALS, by Bob Forrest, and published by NUMISMATICA INTERNATIONAL in 2004.In addition, this book has chapters (outlined in the table of contents), describing each of the categories of medals, their possible place of pilgrimage (acquisition), and origin of the mint where they were made. We recommend that anyone serious about collecting medals from this period, acquire a copy of this book.
    We recommend that anyone serious about collecting medals from this period, acquire a copy of this book.
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