Chartres-Related
Direct from Chartres - Pilgrimage Badge with subtle RAINBOW SHEEN*
- Item Number
- 104
- Estimated Value
- Priceless
- Sold
- 85 USD to firstinspring
- Number of Bids
- 9 - Bid History
Item Description
EXTREMELY LIMITED QUANTITY - Only one will be offered this auction!
Pilgrimage badge - with a special Rainbow Sheen Finish! Beautiful detail - be sure to view all the images to see the beauty in this piece! Only one with Rainbow Sheen will be offered in this year's auction!
This comes with it's own special pouch for safekeeping!
Item Special Note
Detail about the badge itself:a replica of a 13th Century Medal of Our Lady of Chartres.
Mary, on the one side is crowned with a halo. She holds the infant Jesus, with a cruciform nimbus, on herleft arm. He blesses with His right hand, and holds a globe in His left. Mary is seated on a throne between two pillars, and is being carried from left to right by two clerics. Two tiny figures are kneeling at her feet.
On the reverse side two bare-headed and tonsured clerics are carrying a reliquary containing the Sancta Camisia, the sacred tunic* that was believed to have been worn by Mary when she gave birth to Jesus, and given to Chartres Cathedral by King Charles the Bald in 876.
Beneath the reliquary is the representation of a medival Chartres coin, known as a "besan" and which is still part of the ciry's healdry.
This medal is a copy of one found in 1862, at the Pont Notre-Dame, when the Seine River was being dredged and is an exact copy in both design and dimensions.
In medieval times pilgrims sewed the medal onto their hat or clothing or wore it around their neck on a leather chain. It is a fine example of medival crafrtmanship and was inteded for the numerous pilgrims who flocked to Chartres to seek Mary's intercession; many of them on their way to Compostella via Chartres.
*When the reliquary was opened in the 18th century, the garment was found not to be a tunic, but folded linen.*
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