Object Description
213 GREGORY XVI Capellari, Pope 1831-46 1837
Obv. Bust to left, wearing skullcap, mozzetta and stole. Around, GREGORIVS . XVI . PONT . MAX . A . VII . ; below, PETRVS . GIROMETTI . FECIT .
Rev. In entrance to Pauline Chapel, pope kneels before a vision of the Madonna flanked by angels carrying a tablet and the Host. On tablet above, inscription, GREGORIVS . XVI | RESTITVIT | A . VII S . PRINCIP; in exergue, SACRARIVM . PAVLINVM . PAVLVS . III . COND . | GREGORIVS . XVI . REST . | MDCCCXXXVII
Bronze, struck, 60 mm.
Commemorates restoration of the Pauline Chapel in Santa Maria Maggiore.
Bibl.: A. Patrignani, Le medaglie di Gregorio XVI, Rome 1929, p. 88, no. 49; Mazio (1885), no. 629.