Mother of Good Counsel Medal Catholic Telephone Employees of NJ April 26,1953 Silvertone w/ heavy patina. 7/8" dia.
Our Lady of
Good Counsel (Latin: Mater boni consilii) is a title given to the Blessed Virgin
Mary, after a painting now found in the
thirteenth century Augustinian church at Genazzano, near Rome, Italy. The image
is a fresco executed on a thin layer of plaster no thicker than an egg shell. Over the centuries, devotions to Our Lady of
the Good Counsel grew among saints and Popes, to the extent that a reference to
it was added to the Litany of Loreto and the devotion spread throughout the
world. Her feast day is April 26.
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