✅ SOLVED Catholic metal type? And date?

[Diggin Dude]

I recovered this metal about the size of a nickel Metal Detecting in the woods in an area where I found King George II copper, William III copper, musket balls, Civil War button, and of course some modern trash. This metal was approximately 7 inches deep in the ground. I had it soaking in olive oil for about a month to loosen the crud on it. I'm not sure if it is made of brass or copper, I believe copper.

My question is what type of metal is it? I believe it is Catholic, but not sure of which type, it's not a miraculous metal. I believe the writing which is extremely hard for me to read is in Latin. I would like to know if someone could estimate it's age.

Thanks for looking.

 

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[DCMatt]

Can you give us a few of the letters or words you can read? I can't get anything from the pic. It could be French - Saint Catherine Laboure.

 

[jewelerguy]

I can't make any of the words out, but based on the depiction of the woman praying, I would guess it to be St. Rita. As far as age, I would guess perhaps no older than WW1 era. I base that on condition and how it appears to have been made

 

[Diggin Dude]

Can you give us a few of the letters or words you can read? I can't get anything from the pic. It could be French - Saint Catherine Laboure.

I'll get a magnifying glass on it tomorrow see how many letters I can see.

 

[Diggin Dude]

I can't make any of the words out, but based on the depiction of the woman praying, I would guess it to be St. Rita. As far as age, I would guess perhaps no older than WW1 era. I base that on condition and how it appears to have been made

Thanks for replying, it's very thin copper. I'll get a magnifying glass on it tomorrow when I have some time to see how many letters I can make out.

 

[Diggin Dude]

Front of medal says: "LE VEN J B SALLE MORT LE VENDREDI SAINT 1719"

Saint Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

Founder of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (✝ 1719)

Confessor.
Born in Reims in a bourgeois family, he is a canon at 16 at the Cathedral Chapter. Its future is assured. He is young seminarian when he has to support his six younger brothers and sisters, the death of his parents. Because of these family responsibilities, he hesitates to continue to the priesthood. Driven by his spiritual father, he agreed to become a priest for 27 years.

The education of youth passionate about. He opened free schools for girls and for boys. To educate, he founded a congregation the Christian Brothers. To devote himself, he gave up his charge canon which assured him of resources and distribute unto the poor his inheritance. The good bourgeois Reims now share the poverty of his brothers. Despite the trials that make his school teachers for unfair competition, despite the contradictions even within his Order, St. John the Baptist continues its work, inventing a new spirituality and pedagogy. Thus the teaching of reading is done in its schools, not the Latin, but the French!

In the midst of tribulation, the work extends throughout France and even today around the world. He died on Good Friday, he whose heart for years, had been pierced by the betrayals and calumnies. Pope Pius XII declared "patron of all Christian educators."

See also the website of the Lasallian in France and the diocese of Reims Site: Jean-Baptiste de La Salle - A Reims saint (1651-1719).

Memory of Saint John Baptist de la Salle, Reims priest who took to heart the human and Christian education of children, especially among the poor, founded for this purpose the Brothers of the Christian Schools, for which he bore well tribulations, and died in Rouen in 1719, who deserved God's people.

 

[DCMatt]

This one is on Etsy. It claims 1800's.

 

[Diggin Dude]

I also found this with Google search:

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Antique 1800s French Saint Jean Baptiste de la Salle Catholic Medal - Our Lady of Grace Scapular - Religious Medallion - Virgin Mary - H65

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[Diggin Dude]

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This one is on Etsy. It claims 1800's.

Thanks DCMatt !! appreciate your help !! 1800's it seems...... I consider this solved Thanks to all who viewed and replied.