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Vintage Yellow Bronze Shamrock Medal, St. Patrick and the Trinity
SKU: 3c3-1386-YB
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Product Details
This shamrock medal is filled by one broad three-lobed leaf, each lobe modelled separately and finely veined, its stem curling down through the lower half of the open ring where a second small sprig grows beside it. There is no lettering anywhere on it.
★ Made in the USA
The shamrock belongs to Saint Patrick, who by long tradition bent down, picked one and held it up to explain the Trinity to the Irish: three lobes on a single stem, three persons in one God, not three gods and not one wearing three names. It is the plainest teaching aid in the history of catechesis and it has never been bettered. Worn on its own, the leaf stands for that doctrine and for Ireland at the same time, which is why it has been cast and carried by the Irish at home and abroad for as long as such things have been made.
The shamrock medal was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves the piece's vintage character.
Size: 1 inch tall
- 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
About St. Patrick · Feast March 17
Romano-British missionary bishop (c. 385-461), "Apostle of Ireland"; captured at age 16 by Irish raiders, enslaved as a herdsman in Ireland for six years before escaping back to Britain.
St. Patrick is the patron saint of Snakes, Engineers, Ireland, Excluded People and Converts.
More St. Patrick: Medals · Rosaries · Rosary Bracelets · Patron of Snakes and Engineers and Ireland · Patron of Ireland
Read the life of St. Patrick → · Shop all St. Patrick gifts →
Product Details
This shamrock medal is filled by one broad three-lobed leaf, each lobe modelled separately and finely veined, its stem curling down through the lower half of the open ring where a second small sprig grows beside it. There is no lettering anywhere on it.
★ Made in the USA
The shamrock belongs to Saint Patrick, who by long tradition bent down, picked one and held it up to explain the Trinity to the Irish: three lobes on a single stem, three persons in one God, not three gods and not one wearing three names. It is the plainest teaching aid in the history of catechesis and it has never been bettered. Worn on its own, the leaf stands for that doctrine and for Ireland at the same time, which is why it has been cast and carried by the Irish at home and abroad for as long as such things have been made.
The shamrock medal was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves the piece's vintage character.
Size: 1 inch tall
- 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
About St. Patrick · Feast March 17
Romano-British missionary bishop (c. 385-461), "Apostle of Ireland"; captured at age 16 by Irish raiders, enslaved as a herdsman in Ireland for six years before escaping back to Britain.
St. Patrick is the patron saint of Snakes, Engineers, Ireland, Excluded People and Converts.
More St. Patrick: Medals · Rosaries · Rosary Bracelets · Patron of Snakes and Engineers and Ireland · Patron of Ireland
Read the life of St. Patrick → · Shop all St. Patrick gifts →
