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Medal - Nikola Tavelić

1970 year
Bronze - 79 mm
Description
Location
Croatia
Period
Republic (1991-date)
Type
Medals › Religious medals
Year
1970
Composition
Bronze
Diameter
79 mm
Shape
Round
Technique
Milled
Orientation
Medal alignment ↑↑
Updated
2024-11-12
References
Numista
N#386142
Rarity index
100%

Reverse

Cathedral of St. James in Šibenik, Croatia.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
SPOMEN PROGLAŠENJA SVETIM PRVOGA HRVATA
MCMLXX
RIM ŠIBENIK
ŽK JD TK

Translation:
Commemoration of the canonization of the first Croat
1970
Rome Šibenik

Designers: Želimir Janeš, JD, TK

Edge

Plain

Comment

Nicholas Tavelic (Croatian: Nikola Tavelić) was a Croatian Franciscan friar and missionary who died a martyr's death in Jerusalem on November 14, 1391. He was beatified with his companions, who included friars from Italy and France. All four members of his group have been declared saints by the Catholic Church, making Tavelic the first Croatian saint.
Beatified: 1889, Saint Peter's Basilica, Papal State by Pope Leo XIII
Canonized: June 21, 1970, Saint Peter's Basilica, Vatican City by Pope Paul VI

See more at: https://www.aukcije.hr/prodaja/Numizmatika/Kovanice/Medalje-i-%C5%BEetoni/241/oglas/ELIMIR-JANES-TEODOR-KRIVAK-SV-NIKOLA-TAVELIC-SIBENIK-1970/4888553 (accessed 12.11.2023)