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Aux Volontaires Canadiens, Zouaves Pontificaux, Medal
Currency:CAD
Category:Coins & Paper Money
Start Price:1.00 CAD
Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 CAD
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This item SOLD at 2017 May 13 @ 13:18UTC-4 : AST/EDT
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Silver Medal, Obv: "N-D (Notre Dame) De Fourvieres Protegez-Les.", Hand engraved likeness of Notre Dame de Fourvieres at centre, facing; Rev: Engraved "Au Volontaires Canadiens+Zouaves Pontificaux+", Sir De Leur, Passage A Lyon, 6 Mars 1868_._ Mise de L., Melle de P." On Edge of bezel, engraved "Aime Dieu Et Va Ton Chemin". Medal, 47mm, 52mm with bexel. Hanger at top of bezel. Fine, cleaned. An interesting and unusual medal. It could be considered a souvenir and a transportation medal, as it attested to the legitimacy of the bearer's paid passage to Lyon. The news of the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861, leaving the Papal States as Lazio, around the city of Rome, came at a time when, in Canada East (now Québec), mainly Francophone and Catholic, the 'Church, supported by conservative elements, undertook an intense ideological struggle to eliminate the "Reds". These were the most radical elements of the liberal current of thought, heirs of the 1837-1838 Patriots, including the ideas of secularism, universal suffrage, free trade and annexation to the United States concerned about the hierarchy and conservative Catholics. It is in this context that we must understand the call for solidarity with the Pope, launched in 1861, by the Bishop of Montreal, Bishop Ignace Bourget, in the form of a series of pastoral letters, defending the integrity of the Papal States. In the wake of this movement, the Guigues bishop of Ottawa, suggested to the Pope that the dioceses all over the world carry out fund raising in order to finance an independent papal army. An intense Catholic propaganda campaign followed the acceptance of the plan by Rome. Some newspapers encouraged the country's youth to enlist in the army and in 1861 Benjamin Testard de Montigny became the first Zouave Pontifical Canadian. Others joined him in the following years. Finally, in 1867, the news of the battle of Mentana, where a Canadian Zouave had been wounded, reached the country and triggered a new wave of Popish fervor. A committee was formed in order to form an all-Canadian Papal Zouaves battalion. The Canadian Zouaves, a regiment of Papal guards, in 1868, were recruited and 135 men were sent to Rome. The archbishop of Montreal made a speech as a send off, and 200,000 Montrealers attended the send off. In all, just over 500 Zouaves were recruited and 388 Canadians made the trip for the Papal States. The regiment was disbanded in 1870.
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