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Vintage Bronze St. Cecilia Medal, Catacombs of Rome

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The Vintage Bronze St. Cecilia Medal is a quiet and rather moving thing. Cecilia lies on her side, veiled and wrapped, her face turned away toward the ground, before a low arcade with a laurel branch curving above her, and the cartouche overhead reads S. CAECILIA ORA PRO NOBIS, Saint Cecilia, pray for us.

The pose follows Stefano Maderno's recumbent statue, carved to record the position in which her body was found when the tomb was opened in 1599. The reverse names the place: ROMA above and CATACOMBE DI S. CALLISTO around the foot, framing a Chi-Rho monogram flanked by Alpha and Omega among laurel sprays. Cecilia is the patron of musicians and of church music, but this piece takes her as the martyr the catacomb remembers rather than the figure at the organ.

The St. Cecilia medal was faithfully reproduced from an antique Roman original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves the medal's vintage character.

  • Made in the USA
  • Artisan-cast from an antique original
  • Finished by hand, so every piece is subtly unique.
  • Buy the medal alone, or add an optional chain or cord necklace
  • Add a cord or chain to have it arrive assembled and ready to wear
  • Arrives in a deluxe velour jewelry box
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Vintage Bronze St. Cecilia Medal, Catacombs of Rome

SKU: 3c3-1321-B
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The Vintage Bronze St. Cecilia Medal is a quiet and rather moving thing. Cecilia lies on her side, veiled and wrapped, her face turned away toward the ground, before a low arcade with a laurel branch curving above her, and the cartouche overhead reads S. CAECILIA ORA PRO NOBIS, Saint Cecilia, pray for us.

The pose follows Stefano Maderno's recumbent statue, carved to record the position in which her body was found when the tomb was opened in 1599. The reverse names the place: ROMA above and CATACOMBE DI S. CALLISTO around the foot, framing a Chi-Rho monogram flanked by Alpha and Omega among laurel sprays. Cecilia is the patron of musicians and of church music, but this piece takes her as the martyr the catacomb remembers rather than the figure at the organ.

The St. Cecilia medal was faithfully reproduced from an antique Roman original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves the medal's vintage character.

  • Made in the USA
  • Artisan-cast from an antique original
  • Finished by hand, so every piece is subtly unique.
  • Buy the medal alone, or add an optional chain or cord necklace
  • Add a cord or chain to have it arrive assembled and ready to wear
  • Arrives in a deluxe velour jewelry box

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