Finely discount Enameled Holy Cross Pin, Pope Pius XI Jubilee, Sterling

discount Very rare sterling silver Holy Cross pin, one inch in diameter. The face features an exquisitely enameled Latin cross in blood red imposed on an Art Deco radiant sun, inscribed to left and right ‘O CRUX AVE SPES UNICA' (hail to the Cross, our only hope). The medal was instituted in 1933 to mark the Holy Year 1933-4 ordained by Pope Pius XI in honour of the 1,900th anniversary of the death and resurrection of Christ.

‘O Crux ave, spes unica' is from the ninth stanza of a hymn to the True Cross, Vexilla Regis Prodeunt, by Venantius Fortunatus, Bishop Poitiers, first sung in procession on 19 November 569.

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