PLEASE SEE MORE RARE COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS LISTED ON MY EBAY STORE ( IN WWII MEDALS, AUSCHWITZ HOLOCAUST GETTO, WWII LARGE MEDALS, ARMY COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, WARSAW PACT MEDALS)

 

This medal has been cast in 1988 to commemorate the Polish bishop and cardinal August Hlond

 

  

av. The portrait of August Hlond

 

rv.  The project of church in Katowice (Silesia region of Poland) 

 

diameter - 70 mm (about 2 ¾ “)

 

weight –  140 gr, (about 4.95oz)

 

metal –  bronze silvered  metal

 

August Hlond (July 5, 1881 – October 22, 1948) was a Polish cardinal, who was Archbishop of Poznań and Gniezno in 1926 and primate (highest ranking church official) in Poland, Archbishop of Gniezno and Warsaw in 1946. He was the only member of the Sacred College of Cardinals to be arrested and taken into custody by the Gestapo during World War Two, and for the final years of his life was a critic of the Soviet backed Communist regime in Poland.

 

WHAT YOU-SEE-IS-WHAT YOU GET

 

 

Please INCLUDE $ 9 for s&h to USA and EUROPE (air mail REGISTERED parcel send via Polish Post) COMBINED SHIPPING is strongly supported and calculated based on the actual weight of all items together with the shipping materials. 

 

Delivery to Europe may take about 7-10 days, to the US - about 10-14 days, to Australia, Asia and rest of the world - 17-19 days.

 

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