This Medal dates from the saint's beatification in 1675.Please double click the picture as there are many other pictures behind it that will appear. These are devotional medals from Convents we work with as well as donor collector estates that have gifted their medals to us to help the convents we work with. Some items may have been cleaned or polished before their arrival, by their last caretaker. Their use is for personal devotion.

This medal is one of several from the estate collection of Mexico Bishop Pascual Diaz. The Most Reverend Pascual Díaz y Barreto, SJ (June 22, 1876 -- May 19, 1936) was a Mexican prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who served as Archbishop of Mexico City from June 22, 1929, until his death in 1936.

VATICAN MINT XVII CENTURY BLESSED CATHERINE OF GENOA"SALUS INFIRMORUM" SALVATION OF THE SICK.MEASURES: 1.75 INCHES LONGMATERIAL: BRONZEWEIGHT: 25 GRAMS Catherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno, 1447 -- 15 September 1510) was an Italian Roman Catholic saint and mystic, admired for her work among the sick and the poor and remembered because of various writings describing both these actions and her mystical experiences. She was a member of the noble Fieschi family and spent most of her life and her means serving the sick, especially during the plague which ravaged Genoa in 1497 and 1501. She died in that city in 1 510. Catherine's writings were examined by the Holy Office and declared to contain doctrine that would alone be enough to prove her sanctity, and she was accordingly beatified in 1675 by Pope Clement X.

The 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.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.

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