Antique 18th Century St. Jerome Our Lady of Guadalupe Extremadura Bronze Medal

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. Kindly look at all of the pictures. The pictures take precedence over the written description when in conflict with it.
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This medal is 1.25 inches long and is made of bronze.
The shrine to Our Lady of Guadalupe was the most important Marian shrine in the medieval kingdom of Castile. The image is enshrined in the Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe, in today's province of Caceres in the Extremadura autonomous community of Spain.
Pilgrims began arriving in 1326, and in it was at the monastery that the monarchs Isabelle I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon signed documents that authorized the first voyage of Christopher Columbus to the Americas in 1492. Due to the royal prerogatives granted by the two Catholic Monarchs and their successors, the monastery of Guadalupe became one of the wealthiest ecclesiastical establishments in the country
It is not to be confused with Our Lady of Guadalupe, which is a separate title and devotion to a different image enshrined in the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico.
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