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fme_736582 - VATICAN - PIUS XI (Achille Ratti) Médaille, Ouverture de l’année sainte, Exposition missionnaire

VATICAN - PIUS XI (Achille Ratti) Médaille, Ouverture de l’année sainte, Exposition missionnaire AU
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Price : 75.00 €
Type : Médaille, Ouverture de l’année sainte, Exposition missionnaire
Date: 1925
Metal : gilt bronze
Diameter : 43,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 24,65 g.
Edge : lisse + BRONZO
Coments on the condition:
Patine doré, une petite usure sur les hauts reliefs. Présence de quelques coups et rayures

Obverse


Obverse legend : À L’EXERGUE : SANCTVS ET VERVS / QVI HABET CLAVEM DAVID / QVI APERIT ET NEMO CLAVDET / AP. 3-7..
Obverse description : Scène de l’ouverture de la Porte Sainte, le pontife flanqué de prélats et de fidèles ouvrant la Porte Sainte dans la basilique vaticane au dessous d’anges en prière.

Reverse


Reverse legend : EXPOSITIO / MISSIONVM CATH / IN VATICANIS AEDIBVS / ANNO IVBILARI / MCMXXV.
Reverse description : Légende en 5 lignes dans un cartouche coiffé des armes pontificales et encadré de deux anges ailées. Vue sur la cour de la Pigna au Vatican. Signé : S. J..

Historical background


VATICAN - PIUS XI (Achille Ratti)

(1922-1939)

Born in 1857, Achille Ratti was a priest in 1879. He was nuncio in Warsaw between 1918 and 1921, then became cardinal-archbishop of Milan and succeeded Benedict XV on February 6, 1922 under the name of Pius XI. "Pope of the missions", he is also very attached to making the Christian spirit penetrate into legislation and is at the origin of numerous concordats with Czechoslovakia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Portugal, the Baltic States. He also obtained the restoration of normal relations with the Italian State during the Lateran Agreements (1929). Faced with the rise of communist and facist powers, he recalls Christian values, particularly in the face of atheism..

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