{"title":"Vintage Holy Medals","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThese beautiful \u003cstrong\u003evintage Catholic medals\u003c\/strong\u003e are handmade re-creations of antique devotional medals, many of which were used hundreds of years ago. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__description product__block product__block--medium\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"rte non-page-rte rte--product ff-body fs-body-100\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe medals are faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves its vintage character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMade in the USA by skilled artisans from an antique original, and finished by hand, so every piece is subtly unique.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"vintage-bronze-christ-first-communion-medal-medium","title":"Vintage Bronze Christ First Communion Medal - Medium","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Vintage Bronze Christ First Communion Medal shows Christ seated before an altar beneath a round arch with a chalice in his hand, two children kneeling at his knees to receive Communion. The other face holds a chalice with the radiant Host above it, set among wheat, grapevines and a descending dove.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAround that border runs \u003cem\u003eRECUERDO DE MI PRIMERA COMUNION\u003c\/em\u003e, souvenir of my First Communion, the words that make this a keepsake as much as a medal. It comes from a nineteenth-century Spanish original, from an era when a child's first Communion was marked with something meant to be kept for life. The wheat and grapes are the bread and wine before the consecration, and the dove above them is the Spirit who makes the change. Given to a child today it says exactly what it said then.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Christ First Communion medal was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves its vintage character.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade in the USA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArtisan-cast from an antique original\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFinished by hand, so every piece is subtly unique.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuy the medal alone, or add an optional chain or cord necklace\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdd a cord or chain to have it arrive assembled and ready to wear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArrives in a deluxe velour jewelry box\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Equatoria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44617604989113,"sku":"3C3-AGEQUA-31B","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/9177\/3369\/files\/3c3-31-B_3e5ccae2-2927-40c8-b280-3101c6a36afe.png?v=1787689649"},{"product_id":"vintage-bronze-mary-with-many-flowers-medal-medium","title":"Vintage Bronze Mary with Many Flowers Medal - Medium","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eVintage Bronze Mary with Many Flowers Medal\u003c\/strong\u003e sets the Virgin in a garden of cast metal. She stands in a round central field with her arms lowered and her hands turned outward, rays falling from them, flowers rising about her feet. That field is held in a pierced frame of five-petalled blossoms alternating with curling crescent scrolls, so the flowers of the ground and the flowers of the border meet all the way around.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe open hands and the falling rays are Mary as the giver of grace, her palms turned out to pass on whatever has been given to her. Flowers have belonged to her imagery since the earliest Marian hymns, the rose, the lily and the enclosed garden, and a frame worked in blossom says at a glance what the litanies say at greater length. At an inch across, the medal reads clearly at arm's length.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis medal was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves the medal's vintage character.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade in the USA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArtisan-cast from an antique original\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFinished by hand, so every piece is subtly unique.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuy the medal alone, or add an optional chain or cord necklace\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdd a cord or chain to have it arrive assembled and ready to wear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArrives in a deluxe velour jewelry box\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Equatoria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44617605087417,"sku":"3C3-AGEQUA-58B","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/9177\/3369\/files\/3c3-58-B_6375b72d-f1da-42d5-8874-31af309fb472.png?v=1787689648"},{"product_id":"vintage-bronze-miraculous-medal-small","title":"Vintage Bronze Miraculous Medal - Small","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eVintage Bronze Miraculous Medal\u003c\/strong\u003e keeps the design that has been worn since the 1830s. Our Lady stands on the obverse with her arms lowered and open, framed by a scrolled and scalloped border that swells at the sides and gathers into a shell at the foot. The reverse carries the traditional device: the letter M crossed by a bar and topped with a cross, two hearts below it, and twelve stars scattered through the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe design comes from the medal struck in Paris after 1832, following the visions given to Saint Catherine Laboure in the chapel on the Rue du Bac. The rays from Our Lady's hands are the graces she said would be given to those who ask for them, the two hearts are the Sacred Heart and the Immaculate Heart, and the M beneath the cross sets her at the foot of it. At five eighths of an inch it is made for constant wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis medal was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves the medal's vintage character.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade in the USA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArtisan-cast from an antique original\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFinished by hand, so every piece is subtly unique.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuy the medal alone, or add an optional chain or cord necklace\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdd a cord or chain to have it arrive assembled and ready to wear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArrives in a deluxe velour jewelry box\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Equatoria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44617609969849,"sku":"3C3-AGEQUA-244B","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/9177\/3369\/files\/3c3-244-B_d9f4135b-8dd6-4ac3-bb2b-e296b07c9ec4.png?v=1787689649"},{"product_id":"vintage-bronze-4-way-medal-with-crucifix-medium","title":"Vintage Bronze 4-Way Medal with Crucifix - Medium","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eVintage Bronze 4-Way Medal with Crucifix\u003c\/strong\u003e carries a crucifix in high relief down the full height of a pointed oval, with the field around it divided into four small panels. One holds a standing Virgin with rays falling from her open hands; others hold figures with children. Four devotions and the cross are gathered onto a single medal no larger than a thumbnail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reverse is flat and lettered \u003cstrong\u003eI AM A CATHOLIC, PLEASE CALL A PRIEST\u003c\/strong\u003e, set among a Sacred Heart, a descending dove, and the crossed M and stars of the Miraculous Medal. Medals worded this way have been worn since the early twentieth century for one plain reason: so that a stranger finding the wearer unable to speak would know to send for the sacraments. It is a devotional piece and a practical one at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis medal was faithfully reproduced from an antique original and cast in the USA using a traditional fine-detail casting process that preserves the medal's vintage character.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMade in the USA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArtisan-cast from an antique original\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFinished by hand, so every piece is subtly unique.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuy the medal alone, or add an optional chain or cord necklace\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdd a cord or chain to have it arrive assembled and ready to wear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArrives in a deluxe velour jewelry box\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Equatoria","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44617612689593,"sku":"3C3-AGEQUA-245B","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0647\/9177\/3369\/files\/3c3-245-B_b1767c7e-54a5-4cce-8d90-2a51486a8834.png?v=1787689648"},{"product_id":"vintage-bronze-st-christopher-medal","title":"Vintage Bronze St. Christopher Medal","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Vintage Bronze St. Christopher Medal shows the giant mid-river, staff in hand, with the Christ Child seated on his shoulder holding an orb, the two of them set inside an arched and beaded panel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story behind the image is one of the best loved in the calendar. 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Stripped of the figure of Christ, the image gets straight to what the devotion is about: a love that is wounded and still burning. 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On one, a standing figure whose mantle falls in a stiff cone to the ground, with two crowned heads emerging at the top, one full-sized and one small. This is how dressed shrine statues of the Virgin and Child have been shown for centuries, robed in a single cone of cloth so that only the two faces and their crowns appear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe other face is a Calvary: three crosses on a rocky mount with mourning figures gathered at the foot. Together they hold the two poles of Catholic devotion, the Mother clothed and crowned at her shrine, and the hill where she stood at the end of it all. 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