1654, Vatican, Pope Innocent X. Bronze "Sant'Agnese Church" Medal. NGC MS-63 BN!

Mint Year: 1654

Medallist: G. Morone
Reference: Miseli 488, Bartolotti E 654.
Condition: Certified and graded by NGC as MS-63 BN!
Denomination: Medal - Commemorating the completion of the Sant'Agnese in Agone Church during 1654.
Weight: ca. 31gm
Diameter: 38mm
Material: Bronze

Obverse: Bust of the Pope left, wearing camuro and mozzetta. Regnal year (.AN.X.) and medallist´s signature (.G.M.) below..
Legend: INNOCENTIVS . X . PONT . MAX .
 
Reverse: Front-view of the facade of the Sant'Agnese in Agone chruch.
Legend: D . AGNETI VIRGINI ET MART . SACRVM

Sant'Agnese in Agone (also called Sant'Agnese in Piazza Navona) is a 17th-century Baroque church in Rome, Italy. It faces onto the Piazza Navona, one of the main urban spaces in the historic centre of the city and the site where the Early Christian Saint Agnes was martyred in the ancient Stadium of Domitian. Construction began in 1652 under the architects Girolamo Rainaldi and his son Carlo Rainaldi. After numerous quarrels, the other main architect involved was Francesco Borromini. The church is a titular deaconry, with Gerhard Ludwig Müller being the current Cardinal-Deacon. As well as religious services, the church hosts regular classical concerts in the Borromini Sacristy, from sacred Baroque works to chamber music and operas.

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Pope Innocent X (6 May 1574 – 7 January 1655), born Giovanni Battista Pamphilj (or Pamphili), was Pope from 1644 to 1655. Born in Rome of a family from Gubbio in Umbria who had come to Rome during the pontificate of Pope Innocent IX, he graduated from the Collegio Romano and followed a conventional cursus honorum, following his uncle Girolamo Pamphilj as auditor of the Rota, and like him, attaining the dignity of Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Eusebio, in 1629. Trained as a lawyer, he succeeded Pope Urban VIII (1623–44) on 15 September 1644, as one of the most politically shrewd   pontiffs of the era, who much increased the temporal power of the Vatican[citation needed]. He was a great-great-great-grandson of Pope Alexander VI.

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