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During the 17th and 18th centuries, the CatholicCounter-Reformation reshaped Europe and expanded into the Americas toevangelize native peoples. Bronze medals were a significant but common objectminted during this period. Each medal tells a unique story because they aresourced from Catholic convents, estate collections, and metal detectorenthusiasts.
Due to their use, being touched hundreds or thousands oftimes, and often being carried and worn in harsh environments, the medals willshow the natural surface wear (patina) created by their age, use in devotion,and by exposure to the elements. They are found in modern days both aboveground in sometimes buried, as with other artifacts.
All our listed items are original Christian devotionals.Some may have been cleaned or polished before their arrival, by their lastcaretaker. Their use is for personal devotion.
This medal is 1 inch long, and the one in the pictures isthe one you will receive. Sent into us this week, from one of the Carmeliteconvnets we work, with is this beautiful Spanish Colonial rosary medal that is1 inch long and has a weight of 4 grams. We know the dating because a year agoa small catch of similar medals was discovered at another Carmelite Conventsand all were sold.
Saint Teresa of Avila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus,baptized as Teresa Sanchez de Cepeda y Ahumada (28 March 1515 -- 4 October1582), was a prominent Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite nun,author during the Counter Reformation, and theologian of contemplative lifethrough mental prayer. She was a reformer of the Carmelite Order and is afounder of the Discalced Carmelites along with John of the Cross.
Saint John ofthe Cross, O.C.D. (Spanish: San Juan de la Cruz; 24 June 1542 -- 14 December1591), was a major figure of the Counter-Reformation, a Spanish mystic, a RomanCatholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest who was born at Fontiveros, Old Castile.John of the Cross was a reformer of the Carmelite Order and is considered,along with Saint Teresa of Avila, as a founder of the Discalced Carmelites. Heis also known for his writing. Both his poetry and his studies on the growth ofthe soul are considered the summit of mystical Spanish literature and one ofthe peaks of all Spanish literature. He was canonized as a saint in 1726 byPope Benedict XIII. He is one of the thirty-six Doctors of the Church.
These medals dating can be confirmed on pages 2 & 3of the book AN INTRODUCTION TO RELIGIOUS MEDALS, by Bob Forrest, and publishedby NUMISMATICA INTERNATIONAL in 2004.
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