bavarikon4UHerzförmige Wallfahrtsmedaille auf das 500-jährige Jubiläum des Translokationswunders von Sossau
Description
Overse image: Two angels row the Wallfahrtskirche in a boat from the right to the left bank of the Danube, above the miraculous image is shown between clouds. Script around the image.
Obverse script: TRANSLATIO S AEDIS - B V MARAE IN SOSSAV 1177
Reverse image: Saint Norbert is shown turned to the left, in his right hand a monstrance, in his left a double-cross sceptre with laurel branch. An angel offers a mitre backwards and upwards in the direction of the saint who steps onto a heretic lying before him. Behind the heretic is a horned Satan. Script around the image.
Reverse script: S NORBERTvs ARCHIEP MAGDEB ANTVERP APOSTOLicvs
The pilgrimage medal, minted around the year 1677, was probably acquired directly at the pilgrimage site, the Lower Bavarian town of Sossau. Beyond being a souvenir, the heart shaped brass object was a symbol of lived popular piety. Whether as pendant, as part of a rosary or sown into the pilgrims’ clothes: the religious medal was always supposed to offer protection and blessing. The obverse alludes to the translocation miracle of Sossau: according to the legend, the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin was originally located in Antenring. Due to the tribulations the pilgrims had to endure as the result of numerous robberies and looting, the Virgin Mary moved to Sossau near Straubing on the opposite bank of the Danube. Angels carried the chapel together with the miraculous image after her and, as the medal shows, even rowed it across the Danube on a flat barge. The back shows Saint Norbert as the conqueror of heresy and the devil.