PY139BSP St Louis #139

<p>Each beautifully designed medal is stamped in heavy gauge bronze and finished in a heavy silver plating that is thick enough to be engraved. The medals are rubbed with a soft patina to give them the distinct 'Py look.'</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">One side of the medal is - Our Lady of the Assumption Translation: Chamber ascend to heaven The reverse size as pictures translates to: Our Lady of the Assumption, Patroness of French Aviators</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Assumption of Mary</strong></p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">It was not until 1950 that it was officially pronounced a dogma by Pope Pius XII in his papal bull Munificentissimus Deus. The Pope defined the dogma in these words:We pronounce, declare, and define it to be a divinely revealed dogma: that the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">While Pope Pius XII deliberately left open the question of whether Mary died before her Assumption, the more common teaching of the early Fathers is that she did.</p> <p style="font-weight: 400;">Picture Shown is not actual size. Approximate size of medal is smaller, about 5/8" in diameter</p>