Medal - Foundation of the Catholic University of Leuven
Medal - Foundation of the Catholic University of Leuven
€2.00
Location
Belgium
Year
1845
Type
Commemorative medal
Composition
Bronze
Weight
68.6 g
Diameter
57.7 mm
Thickness
4.5 mm
Shape
Round
Technique
Milled
Orientation
Medal alignment ↑↑
Edge
Plain
Period
Notice
Adolphe Jouvenel
Reference(s)
Obverse description
The portraits, in beaded medallions, of the six Belgian bishops in 1834 around the central medallion of Pope Gregory XVI To the right of these medallions, the arms and mottos of their cities
Obverse lettering
GREGORIUS XVI / PONT.MAX.
ENGELBERTUS / ARCHIEP MECHL / PAX VOBIS
CORNELIUS / EPISC. LEOD / IN TRINITATE FORTITUDO
JOAN. ARN. / EPISC. NAMURC. / DEUS MEUS IN TE CONFIDO
FRANSCISCUS / EPISC. ADM. BRUG / SEQUERE ME
JOAN. FRANC. / EPISC. GAND. / AUXILIUM MEUM A DOMINO
JOAN. JOS / EPISC. TORNAC. / DOMINUS MIHI ADJUTOR
JOUVENEL.
Obverse script
Reverse description
At the bottom, between two olive branches, a beaded medallion with the bust in left profile of the rector.
Reverse lettering
SMR
CATHOLICA
LITT. UNIVERSITAS
MECHLINIAE ERECTA
DIE IV NOV. MDCCCXXXIV
LOVIANI
SOLEMNI RITU CONSTITUTA
DIE I DEC. MDCCCXXXV.
P. F. X. DE RAM / RECT. UNIV.
