MEDAL SAINT EXPEDITUS SILVER GERMAN & GOLD TONE

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MEDAL SAINT EXPEDITUS MATERIALS: SILVER GERMAN OR ALPACA AND GOLD TONE FORM: OVAL MEASURES: 1 1/16 inches x 3/4 inches x thick: 1/8 inches CONDITION: NOT USED I BOUGHT IN THE FESTDAY CHURCH OF THE SAINT FRANCISCO JAVIER YOU CAN LOOK THE PICTURE OF THE CHURCH THE PRIEST OF THIS CHURCH IS: "PRIEST MARIO" St. Expeditus At one time t was much talk of a Saint Expeditus, and some good people were led to believe that, when t was need of haste, petitioning Saint Expeditus was likely to meet with prompt settlement. However, t is no adequate reason to think that any such saint was ever invoked in the early Christian centuries; in fact it is more than doubtful whether the saint ever existed. In the "Hieronymianum" the name Expeditus occurs among a group of martyrs both on the 18th and 19th of April, being assigned in the one case to Rome, and in the other to Melitene in Armenia; but t is no vestige of any tradition which would corroborate either mention, was t is much to suggest that in both lists the introduction of the name is merely a copyist's blunder. Hundreds of similar blunders have been quite definitely proved to exist in the same document. T is also a story which pretends to explain the origin of this "devotion" by an incident of modern date. A packing case, we are told, containing a body of a saint from the catacombs, was sent to a community of nuns in Paris. The date of its dispatch was indicated by the use of the word "spedito", but the recipients mistook this for the name of the martyr and set to work with great energy to propagate his cult. From these simple beginnings, it is asserted, a devotion to St. Expeditus spread rapidly through many Catholic countries. It should be pointed out that though the recognition of St. Expeditus as the patron of dispatch depends beyond doubt upon a play upon words - still the particular story about the Paris nuns falls to pieces, because as far back as 1781 this supposed martyr, St. Expeditus, was chosen patron of the town of Acireale in Sicily, and because pictures of him were in existence in Germany in the eighteenth century which plainly depicted him as a saint to be invoked against procrastination. REF TO SELLER: 73 Summary of My Selling Policies Payment TERMS: Placing a bid is a binding contract that you agree to our terms of sale. All payment's must be received within 7 days of my E-mail to you informing you that you are the winning bidder. If not received, we will consider the Sale transaction null & void. We prefer PayPal payments/PayPal: Email: (We are PayPal verified): Upon the successful verification, the Confirmed Address is checked against the credit card billing address maintained by the buyer's credit card company. Shipping to this address minimizes the risk of being paid by a fraudulent buyer, and upon completion of a sale, an email will be sent to you with your final total and our contact information./We accept deposit bank inside U.S.A./Thanks Fees We don't charge any State Taxes. We NOT charge handling fees.We offer Combine your Shipping $ 1,99 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL ITEM. we are NOT responsible for ANY ITEM(S) LOST or DAMAGED in Transit if you pay insurance the buyer will must do the reclaim. Shipping SHIP: USA and/or International. We OFFER send the items of all U.S.A. and We do shipments to all the countries of the world. We carry out the shipments since various different countries. We have different collectors in different places of the world. U.S.A.: U$ 3 /TRACKING: NOT /INSURE: NOT U.S.A.: U$ 6 /TRACKING: YES /INSURE: OPTIONAL /10 to 20 days / U.S.A.: U$ 9 /TRACKING: YES /INSURE: OPTIONAL /4 to 10 days / INTERNATIONAL:U$ 6 /TRACKING:NOT /INSURE: NOT INTERNATIONAL:U$ 9 / TRACKING: YES / INSURE: OPTIONAL/ 10 to 20 days / INTERNATIONAL:U$13 /TRACKING:YES /INSURE:OPTIONAL/ 4 to 10 days / We use to much bubble, and nice bags, and boxes or envelop. W... read more

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