Medal of Merit for Supporting Cholera Sufferers

The medal of merit for the support of cholera sufferers (or also: Cholera medal ) was in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI. donated and awarded as thanks for special assistance in combating the cholera epidemic in Rome .

Order decoration

The order decoration was a silver medal with the image of Pope Gregory XVI. on the front side. On the back there is the inscription Solatori Aegrotorum anno MDCCCXXXVII . The recipient's name was engraved on the award.

Ribbon

The ribbon was black with white stripes around the edges.

Individual evidence

↑ H. Schulze: Chronicle of all known knight orders and decorations, which are awarded by sovereigns and governments, together with images of the decorations. Volume 1, Moeser and Kühn, Berlin 1853, p. 1150.
↑ Friedrich Marquis Guigue de Champvans de Farémont: History and legislation of the orders of knights, decorations and medals of the Holy See according to official sources. Edited by the Institut Historique et Hèraldique de France, Paris 1932, p. 27.

[Schulze1150-1] H. Schulze: Chronicle of all known knight orders and decorations, which are awarded by sovereigns and governments, together with images of the decorations. Volume 1, Moeser and Kühn, Berlin 1853, p. 1150.

[Champvans27-2] Friedrich Marquis Guigue de Champvans de Farémont: History and legislation of the orders of knights, decorations and medals of the Holy See according to official sources. Edited by the Institut Historique et Hèraldique de France, Paris 1932, p. 27.


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